The Fox Who Had Lost His Tail · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: The Fox Who Had Lost His Tail
Subject: Tail-less fox; Foxes
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: Chicago; Ancient Greece; United States
Description: A group of foxes are gathered together around a tree. In the foreground, one fox stands in a proud stance amongst the other foxes. That proud fox is missing a tail. The other foxes look at the fox lacking a tail in a wary way, as though they have to be careful of him because he lacks a tail.
Image Creator: John Greenaway (Engraver); Rev. Geo. Fyler Townsend (Translator)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:27073
Language: eng
Source Name: Three hundred and fifty Aesop's fables
Parent Collection: 1882 Chicago
Image: mta_27073_OBJ.jpg