De cleene fomtijts fnel, Hinderen de groote wel. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: De cleene fomtijts fnel, Hinderen de groote wel.
Subject: Birds; Foxes; Fire
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Bruges (Belgium)
Description: In the forefront, a fox brings a stick on fire to a tree with a vulture nest. In the nest, baby birds sit with a parent bird, who has a baby fox in its mouth. In the background, a vulture chases foxes.
Image Creator: Marucs Gheeraerts (Illustrators); Eduard de Dene (Translator)
Type: StillImage; Etching
Identifier: mta:28630
Language: dut
Source Name: De Warachtighe Fabulen der Dieren
Parent Collection: "De warachtighe fabvlen der dieren," by Eduard de Dene. Etchings by Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder (1567)
Image: mta_28630_OBJ.jpg