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At the start of the 19th century a recension of the fables in Greek and Latin provided another moral that highlights the weakness of the frog's self-promotion: ''Iactantia refutat seipsam'' (boasting disproves itself).[Francisco de Furia, ''Fabulae Aesopae quales ante Planudem ferebantur'' (1810), [https://books.google.com/books?id=scpcAAAAcAAJ&q=Rana+&pg=RA5-PA117 Fable CCXIII, p. 93]] Croxall had also underlined the questionable nature of the frog's discourse that, being "uttered in a parcel of hard, cramp words which nobody understood, made the beasts admire his learning and give credit to everything he said." All, that is, except the fox, who saw through the frog's pretence. Illustrations of the fable have consequently depicted the gullible audience surrounding the frog as it takes its stance on the edge of the marsh, generally with the fox sitting off to one side. In [[Heinrich Steinhöwel]]'s edition (1476) the listeners include nothing more exotic than a rat, a rabbit and a hedgehog,[{{cite web|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/38299630@N05/4909596232/in/photolist-6AS6PX-8E3so9-8FoRy8-6Bdh7m-8tRnQw-6AStLz-8uk43m-8u1TMD-8vaHqk-8tQXUU-8sZkDb-8tNem2-8txpWf-8twch|website=flickr.com|title=Flickr|date=19 August 2010 |accessdate=2018-11-28}}] but [[Henry Walker Herrick]] (1869)[{{cite web|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/38299630@N05/3680256736/in/photolist-6AS6PX-8E3so9-8FoRy8-6Bdh7m-8tRnQw-6AStLz-8uk43m-8u1TMD-8vaHqk-8tQXUU-8sZkDb-8tNem2-8txpWf-8twchi|website=flickr.com|title=Flickr|date=July 2009 |accessdate=2018-11-28}}] and [[Ernest Griset]] (1874)[{{cite web|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/38299630@N05/4911533475/in/photolist-6AS6PX-8E3so9-8FoRy8-6Bdh7m-8tRnQw-6AStLz-8uk43m-8u1TMD-8vaHqk-8tQXUU-8sZkDb-8tNem2-8txpWf-8twchi|website=flickr.com|title=Flickr|date=20 August 2010 |accessdate=2018-11-28}}] furnish a more varied menagerie. Francis Barlow concentrates largely on an audience of domestic animals but places a squirrel and a monkey in the overhanging branches of a tree,[{{cite web|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/38299630@N05/4899913728/in/photolist-6AS6PX-8E3so9-8FoRy8-6Bdh7m-8tRnQw-6AStLz-8uk43m-8u1TMD-8vaHqk-8tQXUU-8sZkDb-8tNem2-8txpWf-8twchi|title=004. The Fox and Frog. {{pipe}} rana et vulpes {{pipe}} laurakgibbs |website=Flickr|date=3 February 2007 |accessdate=2018-11-28}}] where Samuel Croxall's illustrator[{{cite web|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/38299630@N05/5040299883/in/photolist-6AS6PX-8E3so9-8FoRy8-6Bdh7m-8tRnQw-6AStLz-8uk43m-8u1TMD-8vaHqk-8tQXUU-8sZkDb-8tNem2-8txpWf-8twchi|website=flickr.com|title=Flickr|date=30 September 2010 |accessdate=2018-11-28}}] and [[Thomas Bewick]] (1818)[{{cite web|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/38299630@N05/4905934077/in/photolist-6AS6PX-8E3so9-8FoRy8-6Bdh7m-8tRnQw-6AStLz-8uk43m-8u1TMD-8vaHqk-8tQXUU-8sZkDb-8tNem2-8txpWf-8twchi|title=Rana Medica et Vulpes {{pipe}} laurakgibbs|website=Flickr|date=18 August 2010 |accessdate=2018-11-28}}] confine themselves to deer and farm beasts. The frog addresses these from the bank or, in the case of [[Samuel Howitt]] (1810, see above), from a marshy tussock. Later artists portray the frog as a [[huckster]] performing in front of a cluster of bystanders, as in the case of [[J. M. Condé]] (1905),[{{cite web|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/38299630@N05/3676393717/in/photolist-6AS6PX-8E3so9-8FoRy8-6Bdh7m-8tRnQw-6AStLz-8uk43m-8u1TMD-8vaHqk-8tQXUU-8sZkDb-8tNem2-8txpWf-8twchi|title=Rana Medica et Vulpes {{pipe}} laurakgibbs|website=Flickr|date=30 June 2009 |accessdate=2018-11-28}}] [[Arthur Rackham]] (1912),[{{cite web|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/38299630@N05/4909676714/in/photolist-6AS6PX-8E3so9-8FoRy8-6Bdh7m-8tRnQw-6AStLz-8uk43m-8u1TMD-8vaHqk-8tQXUU-8sZkDb-8tNem2-8txpWf-8twchi|website=flickr.com|title=Flickr|accessdate=2018-11-28}}] [[John Vernon Lord]] (1989)[{{cite web|url=http://johnvernonlord.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-frog-and-fox-or-quack-frog.html|website=johnvernonlord.blogspot.com|title=John Vernon Lord: 'The Frog and the Fox' (or 'The Quack Frog') – Artist's blog|date=30 October 2014 |accessdate=2018-11-28}}] and [[Arlene Graston]] (2016).[{{cite web|url=http://www.nyvisibles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/AESOP-Quack-Frog-by-Arlene-Graston-e1400009129602.jpg|title=Image: AESOP-Quack-Frog-by-Arlene-Graston-e1400009129602.jpg, (705 × 707 px)|website=N.Y.Visibles|accessdate=2018-11-28}}] These change the focus to the title given the story by [[George Fyler Townsend]] (1887), "The Quack Frog".[{{cite web|url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Quack_Frog|title=The Quack Frog - Wikisource, the free online library|website=en.wikisource.org|accessdate=2018-11-28}}] |
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At the start of the 19th century a recension of the fables in Greek and Latin provided another moral that highlights the weakness of the frog's self-promotion: ''Iactantia refutat seipsam'' (boasting disproves itself).[Francisco de Furia, ''Fabulae Aesopae quales ante Planudem ferebantur'' (1810), [https://books.google.com/books?id=scpcAAAAcAAJ&q=Rana+&pg=RA5-PA117 Fable CCXIII, p. 93]] Croxall had also underlined the questionable nature of the frog's discourse that, being "uttered in a parcel of hard, cramp words which nobody understood, made the beasts admire his learning and give credit to everything he said." All, that is, except the fox, who saw through the frog's pretence. Illustrations of the fable have consequently depicted the gullible audience surrounding the frog as it takes its stance on the edge of the marsh, generally with the fox sitting off to one side. In [[Heinrich Steinhöwel]]'s edition (1476) the listeners include nothing more exotic than a rat, a rabbit and a hedgehog,[{{cite web|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/38299630@N05/4909596232/in/photolist-6AS6PX-8E3so9-8FoRy8-6Bdh7m-8tRnQw-6AStLz-8uk43m-8u1TMD-8vaHqk-8tQXUU-8sZkDb-8tNem2-8txpWf-8twch|website=flickr.com|title=Flickr|date=19 August 2010 |accessdate=2018-11-28}}] but Henry Walker Herrick (1869)[{{cite web|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/38299630@N05/3680256736/in/photolist-6AS6PX-8E3so9-8FoRy8-6Bdh7m-8tRnQw-6AStLz-8uk43m-8u1TMD-8vaHqk-8tQXUU-8sZkDb-8tNem2-8txpWf-8twchi|website=flickr.com|title=Flickr|date=July 2009 |accessdate=2018-11-28}}] and [[Ernest Griset]] (1874)[{{cite web|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/38299630@N05/4911533475/in/photolist-6AS6PX-8E3so9-8FoRy8-6Bdh7m-8tRnQw-6AStLz-8uk43m-8u1TMD-8vaHqk-8tQXUU-8sZkDb-8tNem2-8txpWf-8twchi|website=flickr.com|title=Flickr|date=20 August 2010 |accessdate=2018-11-28}}] furnish a more varied menagerie. Francis Barlow concentrates largely on an audience of domestic animals but places a squirrel and a monkey in the overhanging branches of a tree,[{{cite web|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/38299630@N05/4899913728/in/photolist-6AS6PX-8E3so9-8FoRy8-6Bdh7m-8tRnQw-6AStLz-8uk43m-8u1TMD-8vaHqk-8tQXUU-8sZkDb-8tNem2-8txpWf-8twchi|title=004. The Fox and Frog. {{pipe}} rana et vulpes {{pipe}} laurakgibbs |website=Flickr|date=3 February 2007 |accessdate=2018-11-28}}] where Samuel Croxall's illustrator[{{cite web|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/38299630@N05/5040299883/in/photolist-6AS6PX-8E3so9-8FoRy8-6Bdh7m-8tRnQw-6AStLz-8uk43m-8u1TMD-8vaHqk-8tQXUU-8sZkDb-8tNem2-8txpWf-8twchi|website=flickr.com|title=Flickr|date=30 September 2010 |accessdate=2018-11-28}}] and [[Thomas Bewick]] (1818)[{{cite web|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/38299630@N05/4905934077/in/photolist-6AS6PX-8E3so9-8FoRy8-6Bdh7m-8tRnQw-6AStLz-8uk43m-8u1TMD-8vaHqk-8tQXUU-8sZkDb-8tNem2-8txpWf-8twchi|title=Rana Medica et Vulpes {{pipe}} laurakgibbs|website=Flickr|date=18 August 2010 |accessdate=2018-11-28}}] confine themselves to deer and farm beasts. The frog addresses these from the bank or, in the case of [[Samuel Howitt]] (1810, see above), from a marshy tussock. Later artists portray the frog as a [[huckster]] performing in front of a cluster of bystanders, as in the case of [[J. M. Condé]] (1905),[{{cite web|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/38299630@N05/3676393717/in/photolist-6AS6PX-8E3so9-8FoRy8-6Bdh7m-8tRnQw-6AStLz-8uk43m-8u1TMD-8vaHqk-8tQXUU-8sZkDb-8tNem2-8txpWf-8twchi|title=Rana Medica et Vulpes {{pipe}} laurakgibbs|website=Flickr|date=30 June 2009 |accessdate=2018-11-28}}] [[Arthur Rackham]] (1912),[{{cite web|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/38299630@N05/4909676714/in/photolist-6AS6PX-8E3so9-8FoRy8-6Bdh7m-8tRnQw-6AStLz-8uk43m-8u1TMD-8vaHqk-8tQXUU-8sZkDb-8tNem2-8txpWf-8twchi|website=flickr.com|title=Flickr|accessdate=2018-11-28}}] [[John Vernon Lord]] (1989)[{{cite web|url=http://johnvernonlord.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-frog-and-fox-or-quack-frog.html|website=johnvernonlord.blogspot.com|title=John Vernon Lord: 'The Frog and the Fox' (or 'The Quack Frog') – Artist's blog|date=30 October 2014 |accessdate=2018-11-28}}] and [[Arlene Graston]] (2016).[{{cite web|url=http://www.nyvisibles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/AESOP-Quack-Frog-by-Arlene-Graston-e1400009129602.jpg|title=Image: AESOP-Quack-Frog-by-Arlene-Graston-e1400009129602.jpg, (705 × 707 px)|website=N.Y.Visibles|accessdate=2018-11-28}}] These change the focus to the title given the story by [[George Fyler Townsend]] (1887), "The Quack Frog".[{{cite web|url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Quack_Frog|title=The Quack Frog - Wikisource, the free online library|website=en.wikisource.org|accessdate=2018-11-28}}] |
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