The Thief and the House-Dog · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: The Thief and the House-Dog
Subject: Thief; Man; Intruder; Dog; Stone wall
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: London; Ancient Greece; United Kingdom
Description: On the right-hand side of the image, a dog is standing in an attacking stance. It is looking over a stone wall, growling at an intruder. A man stands behind that stone wall, holding something his hand, a piece of meat to trick the dog. The man wears a hat, and the top of the stone wall reaches his shoulders.
Image Creator: Harrison Weir (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Illustration
Identifier: mta:26125
Language: eng
Source Name: Three hundred Aesop's fables
Parent Collection: 1895 London
Image: mta_26125_OBJ.jpg