Your Escort

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A bear wearing a morion and carrying a halberd knocks at Reynard’s door, while the fox peers from the window

Our monarch has taken an oath that now at the bar of his court
Yourself you shall place upon trial, and I am your escort to be.

Artist

Name:: Kaulbach, Wilhelm von
Dates:: 1805-1874
Country:: Germany

Illustration

Subject:: 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:: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Publisher:: Stuttgart: J. G. Cotta’scher Verlag, 1857
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A bear wearing a morion and carrying a halberd knocks at Reynard’s door, while the fox peers warily from the window.

The caption reads in the original German:

Denn es hat der König geschworen, Ihr sollet bei Hofe
Vor Gericht Euch stellen, ich soll Euch holen, damit Ihr.

English caption source: Reynard the Fox, trans. by John Storer Cobb (Boston: Damrell & Upham, 1899).

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