Son on the Back of the Donkey, the Father on Foot

A boy on the back of a donkey, with next to the donkey, on foot, his father. On the left three bystanders, one of them makes a speaking gesture. Depiction of the Aesopic fable of the father, the son and the donkey. First scene of the fable, in which it is told how a father goes with his son on the way to the market and lets his son ride on the back of the donkey. Bystanders criticize them, because the young boy lets his father walk, instead of letting him sit on the donkey. Second print from a series of six with depictions from the fable of Aesopus of the father, the son and the donkey.