42 ANIMAL PAINTERS 



Another work entitled Various Birds and Beasts 

 contains eiglit plates drawn from life by this artist. 

 Walpole also makes mention of "a set of Cuts 

 for yEsop's Fables." He doubtless refers to the 

 folio edition, which was published in 1668, entitled 

 yEsop's Fables, "with his life in English, French, 

 Latin, &c., 112 sculptures, likewise added 31 figures 

 in his life by Francis Barlow." The large majority 

 of these elaborate studies of animal life are 

 preserved in the British Museum. A work on 

 sport entitled Several Ways of Hawking, Hunting, 

 and Fishing, published in 1671, contained fourteen 

 plates engraved by Hollar from designs by Barlow. 

 Barlow's name receives mention as that of an 

 etcher in Walpole's Catalogue of Engravers, pub- 

 lished by Dodsley in 1783, and we find plenty of 

 evidence to establish his right to the name. He 

 designed and engraved two plates for Benlowe's 

 poem Theophila, which appeared in 1652, and he 

 etched several desiorns of his own drawingf for 

 Ogleby's Virgil. For the edition of yEsop's Fables 

 (Behn's translation), published by Mrs. Afra in 

 1666, he designed and engraved upwards of one 

 hundred illustrations. This edition of the Fables is 

 very rare ; the greater part of the impression having 

 been burned in the Great Fire of London. One of 

 his most noteworthy etchings represented an eagle 

 soaring with a cat in its talons, an incident which 



