Collection Period: 19th century

Illustration of the fable The Donkey Laden with Salt and the Donkey Laden with Sponges. In the foreground, the donkey carrying the sponges is drowning in the river—only its profile head is visible—while the donkey‑driver, shown in profile, embraces its neck. On the bank behind them stands the donkey laden with salt, also in profile, its head turned as it looks toward the scene.

Inside a mill, three men are working behind the mill wheel, while four others gather around a table with drinking glasses. Two stand and two sit as they drink wine. At the center, a man shown en face points toward a glass that has fallen onto a woman positioned three‑quarters to the right; she turns her head back with a smile as he rests his left hand on her shoulder. The woman holds an infant in her left arm and steadies another small child with her right hand, the child standing before a bucket from which its contents have just been spilled.

Inside a church, with a wooden bench resting against the wall beneath a painting, an elderly woman wearing a coat and a woolen hat, with a stern expression, is shown in profile facing left. She kneels in prayer, holding a prayer book. Behind her, seated on the bench in a three‑quarter view, with her head leaning on the woman’s shoulder, is a girl wrapped in a cloak, with branches placed beside her on the bench.