Fable of the young man and De Zwaluw, Aegidius Sadeler (II), After Marcus Gheeraerts (I), 1608 print A young man, dressed alone in a shirt, finds a dead swallow on his way. The fable describes how a young klopper sees a swallow in the air. He regards the swallow as a harbinger for warm weather and therefore sells his clothes outside of his shirt. Later the young man finds the swallow frozen along the road. The moral of the story shows that one should not judge lightly and should think before acting. Prague paper etching / engraving / letterpress printing fables. song-birds: swallow - FF - fabu
Fable of the young man and De Zwaluw, Aegidius Sadeler (II), After Marcus Gheeraerts (I), 1608 print A young man, dressed alone in a shirt, finds a dead swallow on his way. The fable describes how a young klopper sees a swallow in the air. He regards the swallow as a harbinger for warm weather and therefore sells his clothes outside of his shirt. Later the young man finds the swallow frozen along the road. The moral of the story shows that one should not judge lightly and should think before acting. Prague paper etching / engraving / letterpress printing fables. song-birds: swallow - FF - fabulous animals (sometimes wrongly called 'grotesques'); 'Mostri' (Ripa) (+ dying animal; death of animal; dead animal). youth, adolescent. 'bambochades', revellers
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