[The Lion and Monkey] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [The Lion and Monkey]
Subject: One man; a vase; one lion; one monkey; outdoors; biting; fighting
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Augsburg, Germany
Description: A lion is aggressively biting a monkey outside while the monkey looks up to a man. The man is holding a vase in his left hand and starring at it while the animals fight.
Image Creator: Anton Sorg (Publisher)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut illustrations
Identifier: mta:29007
Language: ger
Parent Collection: G - Vitae et Fabulae. Woodcuts by Anonymous. (1479); G - Vitae et Fabulae. Woodcuts by Anonymous. (1479)
Image: mta_29007_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Aesop's Fables
Subject: One man; a vase; one lion; one monkey; outdoors; biting; fighting