De La Puce, et de L'Homme · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: De La Puce, et de L'Homme
Period: 1650-1700;
Geographic: Belgium; Brussels
Description: A Man feeling bitten by a Flea; What stings me here, he said, and took it at the same time. The Flea wanted to apologize, alleging that it was one of those animals that Nature had destined to live by robbery; whereupon it begged him very earnestly to leave it, since it could not do him much harm. The man replied; and for this very reason I have had the idea of wanting to kill you.
Image Creator: Jacobus Harrewijn (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:28964
Language: fre
Source Name: Esope en Belle Humeur
Parent Collection: F - Esope en belle humeur. Engravings by Anonymous. (1700); F - Esope en belle humeur. Engravings by Anonymous. (1700)
Image: mta_28964_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Aesop's Fables
Subject: Men; Bugs