The File and the Viper, from Aesop Fables. A blacksmith's workshop with, on the left, a brick built furnace with smoke hood and, on the right, a small window. Below the window is a small table upon which a snake / adder bites a file. In the centre is a small dragon seated on an anvil on a circular stone block. On the floor is the head of the Medusa and scattered tools including a hammer, tongs and nails. Other objects in the smithy include bellows, boxes, a vice and a simple wooden suspension rack. Drawn with hatching and cross hatching with a ruling machine used for the walls. Paper cut to platemark
