The Tortoise and the Eagle (from John Ogilby, "The Fables of Aesop Paraphras'd in Verse: Adorned with Sculpture and Illustrated with Annotations," London, 1665)
The fable of the tortoise and the eagle; in the lower half of the design, the earth seen as a globe in space, above which flies an eagle, holding a tortoise in its claws; the sun at top left with streaming rays throwing the upper part of the earth into sharp relief
Artwork Details
- Title: The Tortoise and the Eagle (from John Ogilby, "The Fables of Aesop Paraphras'd in Verse: Adorned with Sculpture and Illustrated with Annotations," London, 1665)
- Series/Portfolio: John Ogilby, The Fables of Aesop and Aesopics
- Artist: Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, Prague 1607–1677 London)
- Author: Related author John Ogilby (British, Forfarshire 1600–1676 London)
- Subject: Aesop (Greek, ca. 620–560 BCE)
- Date: 1665
- Medium: Etching; first or second state of two
- Dimensions: Sheet: 9 5/8 × 6 15/16 in. (24.5 × 17.7 cm)
cut outside borderline and within the platemark except for a ragged tab at bottom left bearing the signature - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1920
- Object Number: 20.81.1.69
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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