D'Un Bucheron, Et D'Une Foret · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: D'Un Bucheron, Et D'Une Foret
Subject: men; lumberjacks; forests; Axes
Period: 1650-1700;
Geographic: Brussels; Belgium; Ancient Greece
Description: A lumberjack had a axe head which was useless to him because it lacked a handle. This forced him to ask for one from a forest, who granted it to him but regretted it on the spot: For no sooner than it was granted did the woodcutter was fervent to cut down her biggest trees and stripped her of her most beautiful ornaments, so that she could not prevent him from doing so.
Image Creator: Jacobus Harrewijn (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Engravings
Identifier: mta:27339
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_27339_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Aesop's Fables
Subject: men; lumberjacks; forests; Axes