The Horse and the Lion · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: The Horse and the Lion
Subject: Horse; Lion; Nature; Kick
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: London; United Kingdom; Greece
Description: On the left side of the image a lion is falling backwards on its back into the ground with a painful expression on its face. On the right a horse is reared up with both back hooves in the air presumably from just kicking the lion of the right, it dips its head towards the ground in force showing the strength behind the kick.
Image Creator: Johann Baptist Zwecker (Illustrator); Thomas Bolton Gilchrist Septimus Dalziel (Illustrator); Edward Garrett (Editor)
Type: StillImage; Wood Engraving
Identifier: mta:27428
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_27428_OBJ.jpg