Father and Son on the Back of the Donkey

A boy and his father sit on the back of a donkey. On the left three bystanders, one of them with a lute, make speaking gestures. Depiction of the Aesopic fable of the father, the son and the donkey. Fourth scene of the fable, in which it is told how the father and son sit together on the back of the donkey and receive the comment that they unnecessarily exhaust the donkey and damage its skin. Fifth print from a series of six with depictions from the fable of Aesopus of the father, the son and the donkey.