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The File and the Viper, from Aesop Fables. A blacksmith's workshop with, on the left, a brick built furnace with smoke hood and, on the right, a small window. Below the window is a small table upon which a snake / adder bites a file. In the centre is a small dragon seated on an anvil on a circular stone block. On the floor is the head of the Medusa and scattered tools including a hammer, tongs and nails. Other objects in the smithy include bellows, boxes, a vice and a simple wooden suspension rack. Drawn with hatching and cross hatching with a ruling machine used for the walls. Paper cut to platemark

Aberystwyth University School of Art Museum and Galleries

Aberystwyth

Title

The File and the Viper (from Aesop's Fables)

Date

1701

Medium

Etching in black on white laid paper

Accession number

PR2746

Work type

Print

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Aberystwyth University School of Art Museum and Galleries

School of Art, Museum & Gallery, Buarth Mawr, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 1NG Wales

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