Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—U

Ubeda

Orbaneia, painter of Ubeda, sometimes painted a cock so preposterously designed that he was obliged to write under it, “This is a cock.” (Cervantes: Don Quixote, pt. ii. bk. i. 3.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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