A leopard, bear and wolf gather in a fan-crowned Gothic niche

A spotted leopard, a large bear and a wolf stand together inside a pointed Gothic niche crowned by a radiating fan of grey-green and orange ornament. The bear at centre clasps a reddish-orange bundle to its chest, and the wolf at the right, its muzzle tinted orange-red, peers out beside it. Below, a stone ledge carries two carved animal-head medallions flanking an inscribed panel. The three are named in the title as characters from the medieval Reynard the Fox fable.

Bernard Willem Wierink (1856–1939) was an Amsterdam draughtsman, illustrator and designer, one of the first Dutch artists around 1900 to make picture books on artistic principles. Writing as Oom Ben, he produced Pim's Poppetjes (1898) and Jan Klaassen (1903), and in 1910 he illustrated Stijn Streuvels's retelling of the medieval Reinaert de Vos, setting text and image within frames of stylised flowers and animals in the spirit of the Arts and Crafts movement. He also made lithographs and woodcuts of animals. His prints are held by the Rijksmuseum and the Drents Museum.

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