A miller sits on a donkey which is being pulled by the reins and pushed from behind to make it move. Lithograph by S. Baptiste, 1828.

  • Baptiste, Sylvestre, 1791-1859.
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[1828]
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29888i
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Possibly the fable of the miller, his son and the donkey, one of the fables included in the Fables of Jean de La Fontaine. Set outside a windmill, with a distant view of a river and town

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[Paris], [1828]

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1 print : lithograph ; image 15.9 x 23.2 cm

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Lettering

Le meunier. S. Baptiste. 1828.

References note

La bibliographie de la France, 11 octobre 1828, no. 777 ("Le meunier. -- A Paris, chez Engelmann, cité Bergère, n. 6. ")--Image of France database
Jean Laran, Inventaire du fonds français après 1800, tome I, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, Paris 1930 p. 293, no. 14 ("Autre suite [Les artistes en plein air], impr. Engelmann: … Le meunier, 1828 …")

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Wellcome Collection 29888i

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