De Aquila Et Testudine Fabula XV. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: De Aquila Et Testudine Fabula XV.
Subject: Fables; Eagles; Tortoise; Drop; tortoiseshell
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Itlay; Verona
Description: At the top of the image there is an eagle flying while dangling a tortoise. At the bottom of the image we see the tortoise with its shell split being eaten by the eagle on the ground.
Image Creator: Liberale da Verona (Illustrator);(); Liberale da Verona (Illustrator); ()
Type: Text; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:28379
Language: lat
Source Name: Accii Zuchi ,... In Aesopi fabulas interpretatio per rhythmos in libellum Zucharinum inscriptum contexta...
Parent Collection: I - Accii Zuchi. Illustrations by Anonymous. (1479); I - Accii Zuchi. Illustrations by Anonymous. (1479)
Image: mta_28379_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Aesop's Fables
Subject: Fables; Eagles; Tortoise; Drop; tortoiseshell