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Illustrations of the fable have consequently depicted the gullible audience surrounding the frog as it takes its stance on the edge of the marsh, generally with the fox sitting off to one side. In Heinrich Steinhöwel 's edition (1476) the listeners include nothing more exotic than a rat, a rabbit and a hedgehog, [ 9 ] but Henry Walker Herrick ...
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 ...
The basic story is of a mouse that asks a frog to take her to the other side of a stream and is secured to the frog's back. Midway across, the frog submerges and drowns the mouse, which floats to the surface. A passing kite picks it from the water and carries the frog after it, eventually eating both. Other versions depict them as friends on a ...
The first to do so was the royalist John Ogilby, adding the fable to his 1665 edition, coupled with an illustration by Wenceslas Hollar of frogs demonstrating against the background of the Amsterdam Town Hall. According to this interpretation, the Republic was ungratefully throwing over its former ally who (in its own view, at least) had helped ...
The Frog Prince by Anne Anderson "The Frog Prince; or, Iron Henry" (German: Der Froschkönig oder der eiserne Heinrich, literally "The Frog King or the Iron Henry") is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm and published in 1812 in Grimm's Fairy Tales (KHM 1). Traditionally, it is the first story in their folktale collection.
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]
The Frog and the Ox appears among Aesop's Fables and is numbered 376 in the Perry Index. [1] The story concerns a frog that tries to inflate itself to the size of an ox , but bursts in the attempt. It has usually been applied to socio-economic relations.
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 ...