The Hawk and the Nightingale · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: The Hawk and the Nightingale
Subject: Nightingale; Hawk
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: United Kingdom; Ancient Greece; London
Description: A large hawk is on the ground amongst the tree roots. It is looking down at the ground where a nightingale lies on its back, with both its wings wide open, as though it had fallen off a tree or down from the sky.
Image Creator: J. B. Rundell (Translator);Ernest Griset (Illustrator); J. B. Rundell (Translator); Ernest Griset (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration
Identifier: mta:26166
Language: eng
Source Name: AEsop's Fables
Parent Collection: 1869 London; 1869 London
Image: mta_26166_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Aesop's Fables
Subject: Nightingale; Hawk