De Jupiter, et des grenouilles · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: De Jupiter, et des grenouilles
Subject: Crane; Frogs; Tadpoles; Cloud; Jupite greek god; water plants; Eagle
Period: 1650-1700;
Geographic: Greece; Ancient Greece
Description: There is a bird resembling a crane eating a tadpole from a river. In the river there is school of tadpoles or frogs and some are sitting on a bark of a tree near the river. There are some water plants near the river. Behind them there is a greek god of Jupiter with a crown holding a cylindrical pole emerging from the clouds. An eagle is right behing the greek god Jupiter also behind the clouds.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Engraver); ()
Type: Text; Engraving
Identifier: mta:27493
Language: fre
Source Name: Escope en belle humeur
Parent Collection: F - Esope en belle humeur. Engravings by Anonymous. (1700)
Image: mta_27493_OBJ.jpg