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