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English: 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
date QS:P,+1630-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1630-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1636-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Source British Museum
Author After Marcus Gheeraerts I; Published by Thomas Johnson

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