‘Mercury and the Woodman’, by Ernest Henry Griset (original) (raw)

Mercury and the Woodman

Ernest Griset

1869

Wood engraving by Pannemaker

8½ x 5½ inches

Illustration for Aesop’s Fables, p.93.

A grotesque image which casts Mercury in the guise of Death; the Gothic forest recalls the dream-imagery of Doré, to whom Griset was often compared.

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Details

• Trees and leaves (upper left)
• The woodsman

Scanned image and text by Simon Cooke.

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