The Sow and the Wolf · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture · Center for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: The Sow and the Wolf
Period: 1750-1800;
Description: The scene is taken place outside, in the distance there is a small mountain and other plants scattered around the area. There is a Sow who had just farrowed lays in her sty suckling her piglets as a wolf confronts them looking for a meal, offering the Sow to take a break from her piglets after her labor and he would take charge, but the Sow declines and asks to keep his distance.
Image Creator: Annoymous (Anonymous);(); Annoymous (Anonymous); ()
Type: Text; Engraving
Identifier: mta:28738
Language: eng
Source Name: The Fables of Aesop
Parent Collection: E6 - Fables translated from AEsop. Engravings by A. Walker. (1760); E6 - Fables translated from AEsop. Engravings by A. Walker. (1760)
Image: mta_28738_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Aesop's Fables
Subject: Sow; Wolf; Mountain; Piglets; Wooden Shelter; Outside; Sty; Plants