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Title: [King wants a Bee]
Subject: King; Bees; Beekeeper; Royalty
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Germany; Europe
Description: There is a man sitting on a thrown. He is wearing a crown and holding a bejeweled cane. He has his hand out in front of him. There is a bee flying toward the man on the thrown. To the right, there is a man down on one knee reaching into a dome. This man has fabric wrapped around his head. The fabric covers the man’s mouth.
Image Creator: Aesop
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:27819
Language: ger
Source Name: [Aesopus Moralisatus]
Parent Collection: 1479 Augsburg; 1479 Augsburg
Image: mta_27819_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Aesop's Fables
Subject: King; Bees; Beekeeper; Royalty