Aesop and the Impertinent · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Aesop and the Impertinent
Subject: Aesop; Impertinent; Humans; Children; Candle; Lanthorn; Market-place; Buildings
Period: 1750-1800;
Description: The scene is taken place outside, there is multiple people and children in the background walking through the market-place with multiple buildings surrounding them. Aesop is holding a lit candle to kindle a fire to prepare his master's supper, while an impertinent grabs Aesop by his sleeve and asks 'what do you burn daylight?'.
Image Creator: Annoymous (Anonymous);(); Annoymous (Anonymous); ()
Type: Text; Engraving
Identifier: mta:28740
Language: eng
Source Name: The Fables of Aesop
Parent Collection: E6 - Fables translated from AEsop. Engravings by A. Walker. (1760); E6 - Fables translated from AEsop. Engravings by A. Walker. (1760)
Image: mta_28740_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Aesop's Fables
Subject: Aesop; Impertinent; Humans; Children; Candle; Lanthorn; Market-place; Buildings