The Frogs Asking for a King · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: The Frogs Asking for a King
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: Chicago; United States; Ancient Greece
Description: A log of wood is floating in a lake with 4 frogs sitting on it, while another is climbing on the log, and a sixth frog is swimming up to it. One of the frogs is on both of its back legs, both its front legs up in the air as it is looking up in the sky. In the upper right corner, a crane is flying in the sky, getting ready to land in the lake.
Image Creator: John Greenaway (Engraver);Rev. Geo. Fyler Townsend (Translator); John Greenaway (Engraver); Rev. Geo. Fyler Townsend (Translator)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:26860
Language: eng
Source Name: Three hundred and fifty Aesop's fables
Parent Collection: 1882 Chicago; 1882 Chicago
Image: mta_26860_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Aesop's Fables
Subject: Crane; Frogs; Lake; Wood log