The Fox and the Grapes Size:XL: 100 x 70cm wearing dark suit with wide

wearing dark suit with wide white collar bands and white ruff at wrist

There is a working-class man's wide-brimmed hat at his feet and he wipes the honest sweat from his brow with a plebian spotted handkerchief

In the middle distance a variety of water vessels can be seen on the River Thames

with opposition coming from all sides

Side view of an unidentified fish

The Fox and the Grapes Size:XL: 100 x 70cm wearing dark suit with wideThe Fox and the Grapes, 15th century (1893). From an edition of Aesop's Fables printed by William Caxton. An illustration from A Short History of the English People, by John Richard Green, illustrated edition, Volume II, Macmillan and Co, London, New York, 1893.