De Mure Rustico Et Urbano Fabula XIII. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: De Mure Rustico Et Urbano Fabula XIII.
Subject: Fables; Peasants; Mice; Pests
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Itlay; Verona
Description: There is a man in the centre of the image looking at a mouse in the cut out of the brick building. Inside the building there is a pig hanging from the ceiling by its foot. All around the image there are mice crawling. They are crawling up vines on the left side of the image, on the ground in the building, on the roof, and on the ground outside. There even seems to be mice nibbling at the pig.
Image Creator: Liberale da Verona (Illustrator); ()
Type: Text; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:28428
Language: lat
Source Name: Accii Zuchi ,... In Aesopi fabulas interpretatio per rhythmos in libellum Zucharinum inscriptum contexta...
Parent Collection: I - Accii Zuchi. Illustrations by Anonymous. (1479)
Image: mta_28428_OBJ.jpg