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)
Wenceslaus Hollar Bohemian
Related author John Ogilby British
Subject Aesop Greek
Not on view
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
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