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Had taken the solemnest vow atonement to make for his crimes.
Artist
- Name:
- Kaulbach, Wilhelm von
- Dates:
- 1805-1874
- Country:
- Germany
Illustration
- Subject:
- Animals, Narratives
- Technique:
- Wood engraving
- Engraver:
- Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Julius
- Format:
- Portrait (taller)
- Source:
- The Harold B. Lee Library, the Internet Archive
Book
- Title:
- Reineke Fuchs
- Author(s):
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
- Publisher:
- Stuttgart: J. G. Cotta’scher Verlag, 1857
- Open Library:
- View record
Description
Reynard has entered a henhouse dressed as a monk and looks humble and steeped in piety as a rooster standing on an overturned basket looks closely at his credentials.
The caption reads in the original German:
Und er zeigte mir an: er sei ein Klausner geworden,
Habe strenge Gelübde getan, die Sünden zu büßen.
The translation provided here is by John Storer Cobb.
Keywords: 1850s, 19th century, bird, black & white, clerical, fox, reading
