De L'Enfant, Et Du Larron · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: De L'Enfant, Et Du Larron
Subject: thieves; men; children; wells
Period: 1650-1700;
Geographic: Brussels; Belgium; Ancient Greece
Description: A child was crying near a well, and a thief came and asked him for the reason for his tears; "I am crying," said the child, "because my jug, which was made of gold, has just fallen into the well, the string having broken. At these words the thief went into the well to fetch the jug.
Image Creator: Jacobus Harrewijn (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Engravings
Identifier: mta:27345
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_27345_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Aesop's Fables
Subject: thieves; men; children; wells