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The bear and the bee-hives: V.2-55

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

The bear and the bee-hives
Aesop's Fables

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Printmaker: Hollar, Wenceslaus (After)

Entities

Categories

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1879) by VanSittart, Augustus Arthur

Dating

17th Century#
Production date: after AD 1665

Note

Reduced copy after Hollar's illustration to John Ogilby's "The Fables of Aesop" (London, 1665)

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Etching

Identification numbers

Accession number: V.2-55
Primary reference Number: 177735
Pennington: see 365
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Sunday 7 August 2011 Last processed: Thursday 7 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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