[The Nurse and the Wolf] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [The Nurse and the Wolf]
Subject: Fables; Nurse; Wolf; Baby; Boy
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Greece; Ancient Greece
Description: A little boy is hugging a nurse's skirt. A baby is sleeping in a basinet in the middle of the room. The house is a little messy with a broom lying on the ground and a rodent crawling around. A wolf's paws are perched on the windowsill, and it is looking at the people.
Image Creator: (); ()
Type: Text; Engraving
Identifier: mta:27246
Language: eng
Source Name: Aesop's Fables, embelished with one hundred and eleven elegant engravings
Parent Collection: E3 - Aesop's fables- embellished with one hundred and eleven elegant engravings. Engravings by Kirk, del., Scott. (1818)
Image: mta_27246_OBJ.jpg