File:Marcus Gheeraerts monkey and cat.jpg
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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 |
| Source | British Museum |
| Author | After Marcus Gheeraerts I; Published by Thomas Johnson |
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