Description:
digital collage with gold showing two figures dressed in green and red in the center right above whom fly two ducks who hold a stick to which a turtle grasps with its mouth; the black and white background shows a landscape with trees and parts of buildings to the right; the image is framed by a grey border; text at the bottom reads, in French "LA TORTUE ET LES DEUX CANARDS. Fable CXCI." [The tortoise and the two ducks. Fable CXCI.]

Tags:
languages; poetry; stories; fables; illustrations

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