The Old Lion · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture · Center for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: The Old Lion
Geographic: Ancient Greece
Description: A lion lying prone on the ground is attacked by three animals- a donkey which kicks at his head, a boar who is behind him and a bull who stands watching the scene in the background. There is a skeleton in front of the lion. The lion is to the left, the boar is behind him. The donkey is to the left and the bull watches from the middle.
Image Creator: Johann Baptist Zwecker (Illlustrator);Thomas Bolton Gilchrist Septimus Dalziel (Illlustrator); Johann Baptist Zwecker (Illlustrator); Thomas Bolton Gilchrist Septimus Dalziel (Illlustrator)
Type: StillImage; Illustration
Identifier: mta:27384
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_27384_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Aesop's Fables
Subject: Lion; Ass; Boar; Bull; Bones