[The Knowledge Speaker] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [The Knowledge Speaker]
Period: 1750-1800;
Geographic: london; united kingdom; ancient Greece
Description: There is a storyteller in the center of the picture, and he is holding a mirror. The storyteller is centered in the picture on a podium, inside a tented area. The person is surrounded by a lion, peacock, owl, monkeys, horse, camel, chicken, and a dog. There is a owl about to drop a crown-like structure on the story teller. There are several people in the photo besides the storyteller, two in the tent and two on the outside of the street.
Image Creator: I. Lister (original illustrator);A. Walker (Engraver); I. Lister (original illustrator); A. Walker (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Etching, Engraving (copper plate)
Identifier: mta:28169
Language: eng
Source Name: Fables Translated from AEsop and Other Authors
Parent Collection: E6 - Fables translated from AEsop. Engravings by A. Walker. (1760); E6 - Fables translated from AEsop. Engravings by A. Walker. (1760)
Image: mta_28169_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Aesop's Fables
Subject: humans; animals; theatres; speakers