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HTML

<svg width="500" height="500">
  <!-- viewBox="0 0 300 300"-->
  <image href="http://cgg.mff.cuni.cz/~pepca/lectures/examples/SVG/svg-logo.svg" width="100" height="200" x="300"  preserveAspectRatio="none"></image>
  
  <!--No viewBox-->
  <image href="http://svgshare.com/i/17B.svg" width="100" height="100" viewBox="0 0 300 300">
  </image>
</svg>

CSS

svg {
  background-color: white;
}