The Ant and the Grasshopper · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: The Ant and the Grasshopper
Period: 1750-1800;
Geographic: London; Ancient Greece
Description: An ant and a grasshopper are seen conversing with one another under a tree in the winter. There are many other small ants climbing over the tree as well. A stream passes behind them, with a village on the opposite side of the bank and three birds can be observed flying in the sky.
Image Creator: A. Walker (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:27543
Language: eng
Parent Collection: E6 - Fables translated from AEsop. Engravings by A. Walker. (1760); E6 - Fables translated from AEsop. Engravings by A. Walker. (1760)
Image: mta_27543_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Aesop's Fables
Subject: Ant communities; Grasshoppers; River channels; Villages