[Rodents Standing Around a Lit Candle] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Rodents Standing Around a Lit Candle]
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: Greece; Ancient Greece
Description: A mouse is sitting down with its back facing us. It is sitting atop of a circular image with mice sitting around a candle, they seem to be talking as the bigger mouse in the middle is making some hand gestures. There is a small bell hanging above them. In the lower right corner, the letters R. H are written, representing Richard Heighway.
Image Creator: Richard Heighway (Illustrator);(); Richard Heighway (Illustrator); ()
Type: Text; Engraving
Identifier: mta:27465
Language: eng
Source Name: The Fables of Aesop
Parent Collection: F - Esope en belle humeur. Engravings by Anonymous. (1700); F - Esope en belle humeur. Engravings by Anonymous. (1700)
Collection: Aesop's Fables
Subject: Fables; Mice; Candles; Bells