The Diplomat and the Anthill, Illustration for Fables and Tales by Hippolyte de Thierry-Faletans
1868
Medium
Lithograph (etching transfer) on cream China paper laid down on white wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 16.1 × 10.1 cm (6 3/8 × 4 in.); Chine: 17.1 × 10.8 cm (6 3/4 × 4 5/16 in.); Sheet: 28.5 × 40 cm (11 1/4 × 15 3/4 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
16388
About the Artist
Rodolphe Bresdin · 1822–1885
Rodolphe Bresdin (1822–1885) was a visionary French draughtsman, engraver, and lithographer whose fantastical imagery captured the empathy of rural poverty and the wild exuberance of the imagination. Born on August 12, 1822, in Montrelais near Le Fresne-sur-Loire in Brittany, he grew up in the Breton countryside amid its bardic folklore traditions before a family dispute left him homeless in Paris...