Art, Symbol & Imagination
You Have Merited Death a Hundred Times
Armed animal figures move together beneath dark trees and curling branches. Their exaggerated clothes and weapons give the procession an uneasy comic energy. The facing caption pronounces that the accused has merited death a hundred times in The Trial of Reynard the Fox.
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Jean de Bosschere. "You Have Merited Death a Hundred Times" [editorial title]. In Beasts and Men, Folk tales collected in Flanders and illustrated by Jean de Bosschère. Supplied illustrated edition from William Heinemann; Dodd, Mead & Company, undated edition, William Heinemann; Dodd, Mead & Company. Source scan leaf 121. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0258-0111
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Jean de Bosschere. You Have Merited Death a Hundred Times. Beasts and Men. Scan leaf 121. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0258-0111