Mercury and the Woodman · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Mercury and the Woodman
Subject: Men; Axes; Trees; Roman Gods
Period: 1750-1800;
Geographic: London; Ancient Greece
Description: A man in only linens talks to another man who is sitting down on the grass and hands him an axe. Another person swinging an axe can be seen in the distance and they are all in a forest.
Image Creator: A. Walker (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:27670
Language: eng
Parent Collection: E6 - Fables translated from AEsop. Engravings by A. Walker. (1760)
Image: mta_27670_OBJ.jpg