A bear has overturned a beehive and is attacked by bees. Etching by J. Kirk after F.Barlow for a fable by Aesop.

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1 print : etching, with engraving ; image 12.6 x 15.3 cm

The bear and the bee hives. F. Barlow delin. Ja.s Kirk fecit. 8. A bee's keen sting a bear did so enrage, that with the hives, a war he does engage: Lettering continues: The numbers join, and on their foe do fall, who grieves his private feud prov'd national. Moral. So petty tumults, by the rout pursu'd, have often mighty Commonwealths subdu'd

Wellcome Collection 39904i