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The Oak and the Reeds; The Fir and the Bramble
Crane, Walter, 1900, Publisher's print
The Oak and the Reeds; The Fir and the Bramble
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40058
Title
The Oak and the Reeds; The Fir and the Bramble. Illustrated page from 'Baby's Own Aesop'
Description
An oak tree, with anthropomorphic legs, braces itself against the wind and the water's current. In the foreground, reeds bend in the opposite direction. The rhyme is to the right, its edges shaped with leaf designs and blowing towards the oak and the reeds:
"The Oak and the Reeds
Giant oak, in his strength and his scorn
Of the winds, by the roots was uptorn:
But slim reeds at his side,
The fierce gale did outride,
Since, by bending the burden was borne.
Bend not break."
In the lower half of the page, an axe is propped up in the brambles against the right hand edge of the picture while behind it stand the trunks of two fir trees. The rhyme reads:
"The Fir and the Bramble
The fir-tree looked down on the bramble.
"Poor thing, only able to scramble
About on the ground."
Just then an axe' sound
Made the fir wish himself but a bramble.
Pride of place has its disadvantages."
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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