Title

Fable of La Fontaine 'The Schoolboy, the Pedant and the Owner of a Garden'

Caption

Fable of La Fontaine 'The Schoolboy, the Pedant and the Owner of a Garden' (in French 'L'écolier, le pédant et le maître d'un jardin').

Engraving by Gustave Doré published in the book 'Fables de La Fontaine', published by Librairie Hachette et Cie in 1890.

Date

1890

Credit line

Photo12/Pierre Pitrou

Reference

PTR26A01_074

License type

Rights managed

Available size

166.2Mb (7.7Mb) / 33.9in x 19.1in / 10158 x 5719 (300dpi)

Keywords

17th century 19th century Illustration Engraving Drawing Gustave Doré Fables Jean de La Fontaine French literature Poetry France French Allegory Literary illustration Animals Animal Garden Path Pedant Schoolboy Child Trees Gardener Owner Theft Scrumping Fruit Tree Latin Education Master Ridicule Show-off Rhetoric Verbiage Cherries Apples Market Chatter Pedagogy Children Vanity Moral Youth Lesson