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The Hare and the Tortoise
1878
- Medium
- Printed in black ink on paper
- Classification
- Ephemera
- Dimensions
- 30.2 × 23.5 cm (11 7/8 × 9 1/4 in.)
- Culture
- USA
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Credit line
- Bequest of Erskine Hewitt
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
Upper right, profile of sitting hare with legs crossed over, leaning on labelled book. Upper right, back view of tortoise, field and sky in background. Below, twist on the story of the tortoise and the hare.
