The Old Woman and her Maids · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: The Old Woman and her Maids
Subject: Woman; Candle; House; Bird; Night
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: London; United Kingdom; Greece
Description: An old, hunched woman with a lit candle in her right hand appears to be calling to someone at the top of the stairs on the right as she has her left hand beside her mouth. Farthest to the right there is a large wooden wall that continues to the wooden staircase the woman stands at the base of. To the left of the woman, on the wall there is a bird hanging upside down with its feet tied together and is presumably dead.
Image Creator: Thomas Bolton Gilchrist Septimus Dalziel (Illustrator);Edward Garrett (Editor); Thomas Bolton Gilchrist Septimus Dalziel (Illustrator); Edward Garrett (Editor)
Type: StillImage; Wood Engraving
Identifier: mta:27398
Language: eng
Source Name: Aesop's Fables.
Parent Collection: E2 - Aesop's fables A new edition. Illustrations by J. Wolf, J.B. Zwecker, and T. Dalziel. (1868); E2 - Aesop's fables A new edition. Illustrations by J. Wolf, J.B. Zwecker, and T. Dalziel. (1868)
Image: mta_27398_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Aesop's Fables
Subject: Woman; Candle; House; Bird; Night