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[The tortise passing the sleeping hare near the end of their race] – Historic Print

[The tortise passing the sleeping hare near the end of their race] — historic print
[The tortise passing the sleeping hare near the end of their race]. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Step back in time with [The tortise passing the sleeping hare near the end of their race], a historic print rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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The moment this print captures is the turn of the race: the tortoise plodding past a hare that has stopped to nap near the finish line. The scene comes from Aesop's fable, a tale of uncertain authorship that circulated in ancient Greece and was told for centuries as a lesson that steady effort can outlast quick confidence. Printmakers returned to the story often because its clear moral suited schoolbooks, children's literature, and moralizing pictures. Look at how the artist sets the two animals against the course to show the reversal the fable depends on.

Medium1 print.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,184 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-120930

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