The Lion in Love · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture · Center for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: The Lion in Love
Subject: Lion; Love; Maiden; Forester
Geographic: Ancient Greece; United Kingdom
Description: A man kneeling with calipers in hand looks into a lion's mouth and pulls out its teeth to the left of the page. A woman stands behind him, holding an axe in one hand and some of the lion's teeth in the other. The lion to the right of the page looks at the woman in pain. Clippers lie on the ground and all of the lion's claws have been shorn.
Image Creator: Thomas Bolton Gilchrist Septimus Dalziel (Illustrator);Johann Baptist Zwecker (Illustrator); Thomas Bolton Gilchrist Septimus Dalziel (Illustrator); Johann Baptist Zwecker (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Illustration
Identifier: mta:27159
Language: eng
Parent Collection: E2 - Aesop's fables A new edition. Illustrations by J. Wolf, J.B. Zwecker, and T. Dalziel. (1868); E2 - Aesop's fables A new edition. Illustrations by J. Wolf, J.B. Zwecker, and T. Dalziel. (1868)
Image: mta_27159_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Aesop's Fables
Subject: Lion; Love; Maiden; Forester