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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)
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Keywords:	decorations, battles, chapterheads, horses, weapons, people, greyscale
Status:	out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free stock image for all purposes usage credit requested Please do not redistribute without permission, since running this site is expensive.

	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-q75-375x130.jpg
Blog image:	http://fromoldbooks.org/r/e/033-chapter-head-chariot-battle-q75-500x173.jpg
Blog link:	http://fromoldbooks.org/r/e/pages/033-chapter-head-chariot-battle/
Scanner dpi:	2400
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Chapter Heading Woodcut Featuring Soldiers on Horesback with Spearsdetails