Du Laboureur, Et Du Serpent · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Du Laboureur, Et Du Serpent
Subject: humans; snakes
Period: 1650-1700;
Geographic: Brussels; Belgium; Ancient Greece
Description: A snake having made his hole close to the porch of a cottage, bit the cottager's infant son, of which he died, causing great grief to the parents. The father resolved to kill the snake, and the next day, as it came out of its hole for food, took up his axe; but in his haste, missed the head, and cut off only the end of his tail. The cottager, afraid to be bit, tried to make peace through the offer of bread. The snake said: There can be no peace between us. whenever I see you I shall remember the loss of my tail, and whenever you see me you will be thinking of your dead son.
Image Creator: Jacobus Harrewijn (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Engravings
Identifier: mta:27330
Language: fre
Source Name: Esope en Belle Humeur
Parent Collection: F - Esope en belle humeur. Engravings by Anonymous. (1700); F - Esope en belle humeur. Engravings by Anonymous. (1700)
Image: mta_27330_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Aesop's Fables
Subject: humans; snakes