A City and a Country Mouse

This print belongs to a portfolio of Stephen Gooden’s engraved illustrations of Aesop’s Fables—short stories with morals written in ancient Greece and still read by some today. It includes “A City and a Country Mouse,” the story of two friends that realize they prefer their own homes after visiting one another. The highly decorative prints, sold as a set, were meant to appeal to collectors with literary interests. Gooden used ornate frames and title plaques for his designs, adding a degree of grandeur to the tales they illustrate, and played with the literary context by adding a tailpiece (a design that goes at the end of a text) that fittingly reads The End.

A City and a Country Mouse

1936

Stephen Gooden, G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.

(British, 1892–1955)

England, 20th century

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