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The Fox and the Mask, from 'Baby's Own Aesop'
Crane, Walter, 1900, Publisher's print
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Title
The Fox and the Mask, illustrated page from 'Baby's Own Aesop'
Description
A fox sits beside a mask with one paw on its hair. A curtain screens off a starry sky, panpipes and two further masks hang from it, and the masks look down at the scene. To the left of the fox stand two empty boots - and a wreath, pipes and a decorated staff lie in the foreground. The rhyme reads:
"The Fox and the Mask
A fox with his foot on a mask,
Thus took the fair semblance to task;
"You're a real handsome face;
But what part of your case
Are your brains in, good sir! Let me ask?"
Masks are the faces of shams."
Artist / maker
Crane, Walter
Date
1900
Size
17.8 x 18.8 cm
Type
Publisher's print
Location
Art and Design Library
Illustrated page from 'Baby's Own Aesop', a book for the nursery created by Walter Crane (1845 - 1915), and first published in 1887.
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Baby's Own Aesop
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