The Boy Who Cried Wolf
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"The Boy Who Cried Wolf" is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 210 in the Perry Index. From it is derived the English idiom "to cry wolf", defined as "to give a false alarm" in Brewer's Dictionary of Phr
Francis Barlow's illustration of the fable, 1687
Francis Barlow (artist)
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Francis Barlow was an English painter, etcher, and illustrator.
The Boy Who Cried Wolf
…title for the story. Caxton titles it "Of the child whiche kepte the sheep" (1484), Hieronymus Osius "The boy who lied" ("De mendace puero", 1574), Francis Barlow "Of the herd boy and the farmers" ("De pastoris puero et agricolis", 1687), Roger L'Estrange "A boy and false alarms" (1692), and George Fyler Townsend…
Frontispiece: Ogilby's Britannia, Vol. I (1675)
Coursing the Hare, illustration by Barlow to Richard Blome's The Gentleman's Recreation, 1686
The Mice in Council, from Ogilby's translation of Aesop's Fables (1665)
Seuerall wayes of hunting, hawking and fishing according to the English manner, title page; 1671