The Viper and teh File · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: The Viper and teh File
Subject: Viper; workshop; file
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: United Kingdom, London (England)
Description: A setting of the inside of a smith's shop. There is a protruding wall on the right. On this wall is a hanging lantern, hammer, and shelf. A pitchfork is leaning against this shelf. A viper is in the centre on the floor and is coiled up, biting a file. To the left is a wooden cylinder for working on and a bench behind this. There is a fire and smoke on top. On the far back wall, there is a window surrounded in bricks in a semicircle shape.
Image Creator: C. Whittingham (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Wood Engraving
Identifier: mta:27558
Language: eng
Source Name: Aesop's Fables
Parent Collection: E4 - Aesop's Fables. Illustrations by Anonymous. (1814); E4 - Aesop's Fables. Illustrations by Anonymous. (1814)
Image: mta_27558_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Aesop's Fables
Subject: Viper; workshop; file