Etched state of an engraving by Gillot issued as a headpiece illustration on page 216 (Book III, fable 5), of M. de la Motte's "Fables nouvelles" (Paris : Gregoire Dupuis, 1719).
Forms part of a collection of 586 etchings by and after Claude Gillot, mounted into a bound album by a former owner, with letterpress title page reading "Oeuvres de Gillot." (see PML 198162).
Illustration shows a wooded landscape, where a group of children throw stones at frogs that we see in the foreground, in a pond; two figures sling stones on a catapult, their arms raised in the air; others bend down to look for stones on the ground; some throw stones with their hands; at far left and far right, trees.