The Bear and the Two Travellers · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: The Bear and the Two Travellers
Subject: Bear; Travellers
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: Chicago; Ancient Greece; United States
Description: A bear is sniffing a man who lies face-first on the ground near a tree. Perched up in one of the branches of that tree is another man, looking down at his fellow traveler and the bear. The bear seems oblivious that there is another person in the tree.
Image Creator: John Greenaway (Engraver); Rev. Geo. Fyler Townsend (Translator)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:26838
Language: eng
Source Name: Three hundred and fifty Aesop's fables
Parent Collection: 1882 Chicago; 1882 Chicago
Image: mta_26838_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Aesop's Fables
Subject: Bear; Travellers