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

Title: The Tortoise and the Eagle
Subject: Hills; Tortoise; Mountains
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: United States; Ancient Greece; Chicago
Description: The lower half of the page is covered in mountains and hills. Up in the very top of the page, an eagle is flying in the sky, holding a tortoise in its claws.
Image Creator: John Greenaway (Engraver); Rev. Geo. Fyler Townsend (Translator)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:26814
Language: eng
Source Name: Three hundred and fifty Aesop's fables
Parent Collection: 1882 Chicago
Image: mta_26814_OBJ.jpg