The Wolf and the Crane · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: The Wolf and the Crane
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: Ancient Greece; United Kingdom; London
Description: A wolf is sitting down, front legs stretched out slightly, its head bent backwards as a crane is sticking its long beak inside of the wolf’s mouth. The wolf is not trying to attack the crane, thus insinuating that the crane is helping the wolf.
Image Creator: Harrison Weir (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Illustration
Identifier: mta:26086
Language: eng
Source Name: Three hundred Aesop's fables
Parent Collection: 1895 London; 1895 London
Image: mta_26086_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Aesop's Fables
Subject: Crane; Wolf