Frontispiece of the illustrated adventures of Reynard, the fox. Reproduction of an etching.

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Frontispiece of the illustrated adventures of Reynard, the fox. Reproduction of an etching. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Reynard, the fox, and many other animals that played a rôle in his adventures, are shown in the surrounding scenes

Reynard the fox is the hero in the beast epic of the fourteenth century. The prose is a satire on the state of Germany in the Middle Ages. Reynard typifies the church, his uncle Isengrin, the wolf, the baronial element and Nodel, the lion the regal element

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London : Nattali & Bond

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1 print ; image 19 x 11.7 cm

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Reynard the fox. After the German version of Goethe, with illustrations by J. Wolf.

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Wellcome Collection 39607i

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The original illustrations to J. W. Goethe's poem "Reynard" (1793) were by Wilhelm von Kaulbach (1846-1847)
The poem "Reynard" by Goethe was published in 1793 as a biting commentary on its time

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