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| Antique print - Wonderful Satyr & Man Drinking Soup - Aesop's Fables 1933 Arthur Rackham Beautiful illustration by the wonderful British illustrator Arthur Rackham. Aesop's are some of the best known and well-loved of all fables: in the words of G K Chesterton:
"These ancient and universal tales are all of animals; whether fables began with Aesop or began with Adam, whether they were German and mediaeval as Reynard the Fox, or as French an Renaissance as La Fontaine, the upshot is everywhere essentially the same: that superiority is always insolent, because it is always accidental; that pride goes before a fall; and that there is such a thing as being too clever by half. There is every type and time of fable: but there is only one moral to the fable; because there is only one moral to everything."
Aesop's Fables have had the privilege of being illustrated by some of the finest of illustrators including Rackham, Dore and Griset. Rackham's illustrations are particularly subtle and striking.A wonderful satyr as depicted by Arthur Rackham in Aesop's Fables. One very cold wintry day, as they talked, the Man put his fingers to his mouth and blew on them. When the Satyr asked the reason for this, he told him that he did it to warm his hands because they were so cold. Later on in the day they sat down to eat, and the food prepared was quite scalding. The Man raised the hot soup to his mouth and blew on it. When the Satyr again inquired the reason, he said that he did it to cool the broth, which was too hot. "I can no longer consider you as a friend," said the Satyr, "a fellow who with the same breath blows hot and cold." The satyr is a wild creature of Greek legend whose bottom half is that of a beast, usually including a goat's tail, flanks, and hooves, and whose top half is that of a man. The Roman version of the satyr is the Faun |
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