Be Limea et Gemino Luo · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Be Limea et Gemino Luo
Period: 1500-1550;
Geographic: Basel (Switzerland)
Description: A monkey with a cub on its back is preyed on by two wolves as it tries to escape. One of the wolves has caught one cub and eats it while the other wolf continues to hunt.
Image Creator: Anonymous
Type: StillImage; Woodcuts, Handcolour
Identifier: mta:29057
Language: lat
Parent Collection: 1501 (Latin); 1501 (Latin)
Image: mta_29057_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Aesop's Fables
Subject: Monkey; Cub; Wolf; Prey; Survival