The Swallow and The Other Birds · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: The Swallow and The Other Birds
Subject: Farmers
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: London (England); United Kingdom; Ancient Greece
Description: A farmer was sowing his field with flax. The swallow observed it, and desired the other birds to assist her in picking the seed up, and in destroying it; telling them, that flax was that pernicious material of which the thread was composed which made the fowler's nets, and by that means contributed to the ruin of so many innocent birds.
Image Creator: Joseph Wolf, Johann Baptist Zwecker, Thomas Bolton Gilchrist Septimus Dalziel (Artist)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:28019
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_28019_OBJ.jpg