Chapter Heading Woodcut Featuring Soldiers on Horesback with Spears details

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Image title: Chapter Heading Woodcut Featuring Soldiers on Horesback with Spears
Source: Ray, John: “A Compleat Collection of English Proverbs” (1737)
Place shown: none
Keywords: decorations, battles, chapterheads, horses, weapons, people, greyscale
Status: public domain in the USA, out of copyright in Canada, hence royalty-free stock image for all purposes and no usage credit required

Notes:

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.

Dimensions: 85 x 28mm (3.3 x 1.1 inches)
Filename: 033-chapter-head-chariot-battle-q67-2688x928.jpg
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