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"I hope to prove one day that in the hands of a magpie, a feather is no less valuable than in the claws of a wolf or the legs of a fox " from Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Drawings and Prints

"I hope to prove one day that in the hands of a magpie, a feather is no less valuable than in the claws of a wolf or the legs of a fox " from Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals

Honoré de Balzac|Andrew Best Leloir|J. J. Grandville

Date
ca. 1837–47
Medium
Wood engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 10 5/16 × 7 3/16 in. (26.2 × 18.3 cm)
Object type
Print
Classification
Prints
Object number
59.500.592(6)
Credit line
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Original Met record Artist authority

Artist information

French, Tours 1799–1850 Paris|French|French, Nancy 1803–1847 Vanves

The Met object ID 812852. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.