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| Antique print - Beautiful Aesop's Fables - The Quack Frog 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.This lovely picture illustrates the Quack Frog - as usual Rackham's animals are so expressive - the Frog is trying to sell his potions to a gathering of fox, geese, mice, hare and a wonderful cockerel. Beautiful colouring |
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