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A frog leaves his native swamp and proclaims himself a wonder-working doctor. He is then asked by a sceptical fox how it is that he cannot cure his own lameness and sickly complexion. The fox's taunt echoes the Greek proverb, " Physician, heal thyself ", which was current in Aesop's time (and was later quoted in the Christian scriptures).
A tile design by William de Morgan, 1872 (Victoria & Albert Museum). The majority of literary allusions to the fable have contrasted the passivity of King Log with the energetic policy of King Stork, but it was pressed into the service of political commentary in the title "King Stork and King Log: at the dawn of a new reign", a study of Russia written in 1895 by the political assassin Sergey ...
Aesop and the Ferryman; The Ant and the Grasshopper; The Ape and the Fox; The Ass and his Masters; The Ass and the Pig; The Ass Carrying an Image; The Ass in the Lion's Skin; The Astrologer who Fell into a Well; The Bald Man and the Fly; The Bear and the Travelers; The Beaver; The Belly and the Other Members; The Bird-catcher and the Blackbird ...
The fable was a favourite in England and was put to popular use on 18th century china by the Fenton pottery [13] and in the 19th century by the Wedgwood pottery. This was on its Aesop series of coloured plates, signed by Emile Lessore in the 1860s. [14] Minton's pottery also used the fable on a series of Aesop tiles a little later.
The poem was also issued as a propaganda pamphlet under the title of The Frog, or the Low Countrey Nightingale during the Second Anglo-Dutch War. A similar claim was made, using the same fable, during the Franco-Dutch War of 1672-8 in a European pamphlet war encompassing publications in Latin, French, Spanish and Italian. [8]
The Fable of Fox and Heron is an oil painting by Frans Snyders depicting the story from Aesop's Fable.It was created in Antwerp sometime between 1630 and 1640, [1] the painting is a composite of two stories, "The Fable of the Fox and Heron (or stork)" and "The Frogs who asked for a King". [2]
Brownhills alphabet plate, Aesop's Fables series, The Fox and the Grapes c. 1880. Sharpe's limerick versions of Aesop's fables appeared in 1887. This was in a magnificently hand-produced Arts and Crafts Movement edition, The Baby's Own Aesop: being the fables condensed in rhyme with portable morals pictorially pointed by Walter Crane. [94]
Gustave Doré's print of La Fontaine's fable, 1867. Hares are proverbially timid and a number of fables have been based on this behaviour. The best known, often titled "The Hares and the Frogs", appears among Aesop's Fables and is numbered 138 in the Perry Index. [1] As well as having an Asian analogue, there have been variant versions over the ...