拍品專文
This print illustrates a tale in Ritter von Thurn, Basel, 1493, for which Drer had designed woodcuts, though this subject had not been included. It tells of a cook's wife who had eaten an eel meant for unexpected guests. She made excuses and told her husband that it had been taken by an otter. The man was told the truth by his wife's talking magpie, and in revenge she plucked all the feathers off the bird's head. Thereafter, whenever the magpie saw a bald-headed man, it would exclaim 'So, you have been telling about the eel!'