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Title: The Wanton Calf
Subject: Ox; Calf; Nature; Farm; Man; Plow
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: London; United Kingdom; Greece
Description: In the right foreground a young calf standing in a thick patch of foliage stares up curiously at an older ox at work. On the left, the older ox mid stride stares ahead as it pushes forward a plow through a field. Behind the plow on the right back corner stands a farmer pushing to keep up with the ox.
Image Creator: Johann Baptist Zwecker (Illustrator);Thomas Bolton Gilchrist Septimus Dalziel (Illustrator);Edward Garrett (Editor); Johann Baptist Zwecker (Illustrator); Thomas Bolton Gilchrist Septimus Dalziel (Illustrator); Edward Garrett (Editor)
Type: StillImage; Wood Engraving
Identifier: mta:27425
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_27425_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Aesop's Fables
Subject: Ox; Calf; Nature; Farm; Man; Plow