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"There was once, in the camp there, two little hares with their sister, and then there was also a big bad bird who wanted to stop them from passing" from Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals

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"There was once, in the camp there, two little hares with their sister, and then there was also a big bad bird who wanted to stop them from passing" from Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals

Honoré de Balzac|J. J. Grandville|Louis-Henri Brevière

Date
ca. 1837–47
Medium
Wood engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 10 3/8 × 7 3/16 in. (26.3 × 18.2 cm)
Object type
Print
Classification
Prints
Object number
59.500.592(8)
Credit line
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Original Met record Artist authority

Artist information

French, Tours 1799–1850 Paris|French, Nancy 1803–1847 Vanves|French, Forges-les-Eaux 1797–1869 Hyers

Subjects and terms

  • Owls
  • Rabbits

The Met object ID 812860. 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.