The monkey forcing the cat to extract the nuts from the fire (illustration to the fable of the "catspaw"); a trencher copied from gheeraerts's illustrations to aesop. C. 1630/6
engraving; diameter: 123 millimetres
from a set of twelve plates that were intended to be used as trenchers. "the monkey seing nuts in fire
doth force the cat to plucke them neir;
which showeth the enuious doth not care,
whose house do burne so they haue share. ". Date: between 1630 and 1636.
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