[The Frog Who Strove to Equal the Ox In Size] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [The Frog Who Strove to Equal the Ox In Size]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe
Description: An ox stands in the midst of a small stream and looks towards the shore in the foreground where a single frog stands by a patch of reeds. The image is occasioned by the duke telling Sancho Panza "Secondly, Bear constantly in mind who you were, and endeavour to know yourself, which is the most difficult point of knowledge imaginable. The knowledge of yourself will keep you from puffing yourself up, like the frog who strove to equal the ox in size" (Page 447).
Image Creator: Tony Johannot (Illustrator); Sears (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:26879
Language: eng
Source Name: Don Quixote De La Mancha
Parent Collection: Bohn 1842
Image: mta_26879_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Frogs; Fiction; Oxen; Fiction