[Words are Wont to the Tongue] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Words are Wont to the Tongue]
Subject: Aesop's Fables; Insects; Table; Insect forms in art and archaeology
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Ancient Greece
Description: Someone swats at a large flying insect, gripping the bowl that sits atop a set table. Trees bend towards the person in the background, while the insect seems to ponder their swatting. Winged and non-winged insects sit below the table.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:28205;local: 99981
Language: lat
Source Name: Accii Zuchi summa campaneae Veronensis viri, eruditissimi, in Aesopi fabulas interpretatio per rhythmos in libellum zucharinum inscriptum contexta foeliciter incipit.
Parent Collection: I - Accii Zuchi. Illustrations by Anonymous. (1479); I - Accii Zuchi. Illustrations by Anonymous. (1479)
Collection: Aesop's Fables
Subject: Aesop's Fables; Insects; Table; Insect forms in art and archaeology