Un Laboureur, et Ses Enfans · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Un Laboureur, et Ses Enfans
Subject: Family; Children; Father; Farming
Period: 1650-1700;
Geographic: Belgium; Brussels
Description: A farmer had children who lived in great harmony. They quarreled every day, and whatever he could do to bring them to an agreement, he could not prevent them from coming to blows and fighting until they were all in a rage. The good man was in extreme pain. One day seeing them more peaceful than usual, to take advantage of this moment of trepidation that they gave to their animosity, he brought some rods, and having tied them together presented them to his children, and said to them, that each of you try to break this bundle of rods. they took it in turn and tried intuitively to break it.
Image Creator: Jacobus Harrewijn (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:28945
Language: fre
Source Name: Esope en Belle Humeur
Parent Collection: F - Esope en belle humeur. Engravings by Anonymous. (1700)
Image: mta_28945_OBJ.jpg