D'un Chasseur , et d'un Perdrix · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: D'un Chasseur , et d'un Perdrix
Subject: Hunting; Birds
Period: 1650-1700;
Geographic: Belgium; Brussels
Description: A partridge, which had just been caught, offered to bring the shoemaker whole companies of other partridges if he would let her live. The Shoemaker, eager for the prey, almost allowed himself to be persuaded, when suddenly he reflected that if she was capable of deceiving her companions, she might well deceive him himself; he cried out, crushing her head, "What proof should one give of the promises of a traitor?
Image Creator: Jacobus Harrewijn (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:28958
Language: fre
Source Name: Esope en Belle Humeur
Parent Collection: F - Esope en belle humeur. Engravings by Anonymous. (1700); F - Esope en belle humeur. Engravings by Anonymous. (1700)
Image: mta_28958_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Aesop's Fables
Subject: Hunting; Birds