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Pen and ink drawing of a man digging with a shovel in a forest as a snake coils around a tree trunk.

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Fern Flower, Illustration for a Fable by Walery Przyborowski, Wojciech Gerson (1880). Via artnap.com

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A pen and ink illustration shows a man in peasant clothing digging into the forest floor with a shovel while a serpent coils around a tree trunk nearby. Gnarled, bare trees and ferns fill the dark woodland setting, enclosed by a decorative brown mount. The work is titled Fern Flower, an illustration for a fable by Walery Przyborowski, by Wojciech Gerson, dated 1880.