The Tortoise and the Frogs (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 frogs; a tortoise and several frogs on a riverbank at left, eels and other fish feeding on the softbodied frogs swimming in the stream; tall trees on the far side of the river at right, a wagon pulled by horses
travels from left to right in the middle distance.