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

Title: The Peacock and the Crane
Subject: Crane; Peacock; Bird; Nature; Fly
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: London; United Kingdom; Greece
Description: In the foreground we see a crane flying low to the ground with its wings outstretched in motion. Behind we see a peacock with its feathers open fully on the ground. In the far distance on the left there are two more birds looking the direction of the crane.
Image Creator: Johann Baptist Zwecker (Illustrator); Thomas Bolton Gilchrist Septimus Dalziel (Illustrator); Edward Garrett (Editor)
Type: StillImage; Wood Engraving
Identifier: mta:27416
Language: eng
Source Name: Aesop's Fables.
Parent Collection: E2 - Aesop's fables A new edition. Illustrations by J. Wolf, J.B. Zwecker, and T. Dalziel. (1868)
Image: mta_27416_OBJ.jpg