Androcles Classical accounts. Agostino Veneziano depicts the slave Androcles being freed by the Emperor in a work from 1516-17 now in the LACMA collection. There is also an early pen and wash drawing by Baldassare Peruzzi dating from the 1530s in the Hermitage Museum. Dependent on the account by Aulus Gellius, it depicts Androcles walking through a doorway with the lion on a lead at his heel. Other artists have preferred the scene of Androcles pulling the thorn from the lion's paw, as in Bernhard Rode's print of 1784. A later American example is Walter Inglis Anderson's block print scroll of
Raven: A Trickster Tale From The Pacific Northwest saying, "With this masterfully executed reworking, McDermott adds to the folktale bookshelf a work in the grand tradition." "Horn Book Magazine" stating that "The naive view suits the simplicity of the scheme, and the mythic elements of the story are masterfully rendered." In a section of "The New York Times" Gerald McDermott is praised along with his works of fiction saying, "McDermott is not only a picture-book artist of the first-rank, but also one of our most gifted retellers of myth and folk tale." Raven: A Trickster Tale From The Pacific Northwest Raven: A Trickster Tale From The Pacific Northwest