The title comes from Aesop's fable in which a traveller, crossing an empty wilderness, comes upon Truth living there alone. Asked why she has left the towns for the desert, Truth answers that in the old days falsehood was with only a few, but has since spread among all people. Bruce sets the meeting down in spare, flowing line, letting the two figures carry the whole fable.
It is one of the images that opens the site, and one of the clearest examples of the expressive linework that runs through his mythology and fable plates, alongside works such as The Wolf & the Crane and The Cat and Venus.
The image is an etching, drawn into a metal plate and printed. Original prints from the estate archive can be enquired about through the contact form, and the full set sits in the etchings collection.
