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Creator:
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828
Title(s):
The shepherd's boy and the wolf : tailpiece.
Published/Created:
England, 1818?
Physical Description:
1 printing block ; 37 mm high x 58 mm wide x 24 mm deep
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
NE1147.6.B49 A68d Flat A
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
[Request]
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Full Orbis Record:
http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/16473100
Classification:
Three-Dimensional Artifacts
Notes:
"This Stone (like many 10000000[?] of men in the world) has held up its bare useless head for many centuries past"--Text on block.
Title derived from heading in The fables of Aesop.
The image engraved on the present printing block, by Thomas Bewick, was originally published in Bewick's The fables of Aesop and others, with designs on wood (Newcastle: E. Walker for T. Bewick and Son, Longman and Co. London, 1818).
Subject Terms:
Truthfulness and falsehood.
Form/Genre:
Wood blocks (printing blocks)
Contributors:
Contained in (work): Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828. The fables of Aesop and others, with designs on wood.
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