Chapter Heading Woodcut Featuring Soldiers on Horesback with Spears, from A Compleat Collection of English Proverbs (1737), added on 28th Feb 2008
February 28, 2008
A decorative woodcut from above the section entitled Proverbs and Proverbial Observsations cocerning Husbandry, Weather, and the Seasons of the Year. It is not related to the text. The engraving features a battle of warriors or soldiers with spears and shields. I suspect it is based on the carved side of an ancient Hellenistic (Greek) sarcophagus thought to depict ALexander the Great, but I am not certain.
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