The Hare and the Tortoise · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: The Hare and the Tortoise
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: Ancient Greece; Chicago; United States
Description: A large hare is lying in the grass in the fore ground. Its long ears are bent backwards, and its eyes are slightly closed, it looks as though the hare is sleeping. In the background, a tortoise is lounging on the sand near the shore, its little head looking in the direction of the sleeping hare.
Image Creator: John Greenaway (Engraver);Rev. Geo. Fyler Townsend (Translator); John Greenaway (Engraver); Rev. Geo. Fyler Townsend (Translator)
Type: StillImage; Engravings
Identifier: mta:26623
Language: eng
Source Name: Three hundred and fifty Aesop's fables
Parent Collection: 1882 Chicago; 1882 Chicago
Image: mta_26623_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Aesop's Fables
Subject: Shore; Hare; Tortoise