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Fable of the Bull and the Mouse
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
A mouse and a bull stand facing each other. The fable describes a mouse that bites a bull in its foot and then hides in its burrow. The moral of the story teaches that every ruler can be hindered by the cleverness of a single subject.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineFabel van de stier en de muis. 1608. Aegidius Sadeler (II). Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
