Frog and Ox
1805 Italian Engraving
1805 Italian Engraving
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Barlow
La Ranocchia, ed il Bove (The Frog and the Ox) Gioccino Moro, Lasinio R. Frof, Florence, Italy: 1805 Engraving on paper 11 3/8 x 14 1/2 inches $400 |
| Printed below the picture is a humorous morality poem in Italian about an envious frog inflating itself in a vain effort to make itself as large as the ox. A child watches the scene from the barn window in the upper left corner. |