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

Title: The Ant and the Grasshopper
Subject: Ant; Grasshopper; Nature; Corn
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: London; United Kingdom; Greece
Description: In the foreground we see a large grasshopper facing away looking at a bunch of ants in the background. The land is very empty except for the grasshopper, the ants, corn, and a small piece of foliage in the left front of the image. The ants in the back are seen scurrying and moving a bunch of corn into a large pile in the back left corner of the image.
Image Creator: Johann Baptist Zwecker (Illustrator); Thomas Bolton Gilchrist Septimus Dalziel (Illustrator); Edward Garrett (Editor)
Type: StillImage; Wood Engraving
Identifier: mta:27421
Language: eng
Source Name: Aesop's Fables.
Parent Collection: E2 - Aesop's fables A new edition. Illustrations by J. Wolf, J.B. Zwecker, and T. Dalziel. (1868)
Image: mta_27421_OBJ.jpg