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A tortoise overtakes a sleeping hare in a race. The hare and the tortoise. Illustration of a fable by Greek author Aesop. Copperplate etching drawn and engraved from life by Samuel Howitt from his own A New Work of Animals, Principally Designed from the Fables of Aesop, Gay and Phaedrus, Edward Orme, London, 1811.
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A tortoise overtakes a sleeping hare in a race. The hare and the tortoise. Illustration of a fable by Greek author Aesop. Copperplate etching drawn and engraved from life by Samuel Howitt from his own A New Work of Animals, Principally Designed from the Fables of Aesop, Gay and Phaedrus, Edward Orme, London, 1811.
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Album / Florilegius
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5935 x 4579 px | 77.8 MB
Print size:
50.2 x 38.8 cm | 19.8 x 15.3 in (300 dpi)
Keywords:
AESOP • ANIMAL • ANIMAL: HARE • ANIMALS • COPPERPLATE ENGRAVING • DRAWN • EDUCATIONAL • ENGRAVED • ETCHING • FABLE • FABLES OF AESOP • FABULIST • FIELD SPORTS • GAIUS JULIUS PHAEDRUS • GAME: HARE • GAY AND PHAEDRUS • GEORGIAN • GREEK AUTHOR • HARE AND THE TORTOISE, THE • HARE • HUNT • HUNTING • ILLUSTRATION • ILLUSTRATIONS • JOHN GAY • MORAL TALE • MORAL • NEW WORK OF ANIMALS • OVERTAKE • PRIDE • RACE • REGENCY • SAMUEL HOWITT • SLEEP • SLEEPING • SLEEPS • SLOW • SLUMBER • SPORTING • SURE • TORTOISE • TURTLE • ZOOLOGY
