Tortoise Collection (page 5)

Dicky and Dolly

Treasure ship with crane and tortoise. Date 181-

The republican hare and the democratic tortoise. Illustration shows a turtle with the face of William Jennings Bryan and a rabbit with the face of William H. Taft in a race. Date 1908 July 8

Prehistoric landscape with various creatures
A prehistoric landscape with various creatures in the air, on land, and in the water. 19th century

Valentines Day card - little girl on tortoise
To my Valentine - a cute little girl looks out from under her blue bonnet while clutching two Valentines cards in envelopes decorated with red hearts; she rides on the back of a tortoise

A witch sits by her cauldron surrounded by wildlife: a raven sit on top of her armchair, an owl perches in the beams, a tortoise and fish (presumably alive no more) dangle from the ceiling

Slowness Postcard
Everything seems Blooming Slow just now... A man complaining of a lack of speed and motion needs to check his mount - a Giant Tortoise! Date: 1918

Scilly Isles Rock
The Tortoise Rock, a strange natural rock formation at St. Mary s, Scilly Isles. Date: 1930s

Head of Giant Tortoise
The wrinkly old face of a giant tortoise. Date: 1960s

Giant Tortoise
A giant spurred tortoise. Date: April 1977

Radio-Control Tortoise
A testing time for Toddle the tortoise. The aerial picks up a signal and makes the arm holding the lettuce (and Toddle!) swing left or right. Date: 1960s

Little & Large Tortoises
A giant tortoise with her young, or a much smaller cousin. Date: 1960s

Giant Tortoises
Giant tortoises. Date: 1960s

Varieties of fish (Pisces), namely: prickly ophidium, spotted sea serpent, chain striped Muroena, Pegasus draconis, conger eel, ostracion quadricornis, perca vittata, perca lucioperca (perch)

Stele-carrying turtle - Ming Tombs Nanjing, China
Stele-carrying turtle at the Ming Dynasty Tombs Nanjing, China Date: circa 1910s

Hare and the Tortoise
THE HARE AND THE TORTOISE Date: Circa 1880

Shadow drawing. C. H. Bennett, Green Turtle
Green Turtle - Swallow Hall, Tortoise Park. Aptly named, this large, well fed man stands holding his collar and casting the shadow of a Turtle or Tortoise

Origin Species, CH Bennett, Money saver - tortoise
Slow and sure. Satire on Darwins Origin of Species showing the evolution of money saver from a tortoise. A stout old gentleman, patient, industrious, conscious of the true value of money

Fable - The Tortoise and the Hare
The complacent hare takes a nap under a tree while the Tortoise romps home in this cautionary tale advocating the slow and steady over the fast and flippant. Illustration by Malcolm Greensmith

Unselfishness / W H Robinson
In the new world even a tortoise can count on the kind of courtesy formally reserved for rich aunts. Please note: Credit must appear as (c)

Siblings playing with toys near the fire
A sister and brother playing with their playing with their toys in front of the fire. Watercolour painting by Raymond Sheppard

The smallest tortoise and the Largest tortoise in the New Yo
The smallest Albemarble Island specimen in the New York zoological park, weighing 3 3/4oz, perched on the head of the largest Galapagos tortoise in the park

Giant Tortoise at London Zoo, 1936
Photograph of a Bauers Saddleback Tortoise at London Zoo, 1936

Various Lizards
A Tortoise, a Crocodile, a Lizard and a Salamander

Three Cats Drink Milk
Three cats (a Siamese, a persian and a tabby) drink milk from a bowl on a table while a tortoise shell cat looks on from a nearby chair

Tortoise & Rope Edging
A tortoise climbing over some rope edging onto a lawn

Tortoise and Hare
The Hare and The Tortoise and The Hare and The Frogs

Myth of Urashima
The legend of Urashima Taro, a humble fisher-lad, resembles that of Rip van Winkle : he is carried by a tortoise to the Dragons Palace where he lives with the Princess for ages

Bulgaria and Germany
Bulgaria enters the war on the side of Germany; but when she is faced with reality, she finds she is a tortoise, not an eagle (cartoon based on old fable of eagle and tortoise)

Iraq / Archaeology / Lagash
A fragment of a siege stele, depicting the suppression of Umma by the forces of Lagash

Roman Testudo / Sieges
The TESTUDO (tortoise), a Roman siege technique using overlapping shields, giving protection from arrows and boiling oil, and serving as a platform to raise attackers

Myth / Tibet / Monkey
THE TORTOISE & THE MONKEY Although the monkey showed him kindness, the ungrateful tortoise still tried to trick him into sacrificing his heart to save the tortoises wife

Tortoise & Two Ducks
THE TORTOISE & TWO DUCKS A tortoise wishing to travel is flown by grasping a stick in its mouth, supported by two ducks; the foolish tortoise speaks and plummets to earth

A TORTOISE
A tortoise

Car Startles Horse 1900
The hare and the tortoise retold - the hare wins A speeding car startles a horse and cart

Si Wang-Mou
SI WANG-MOU the Golden Mother of the Tortoise, the female creative force of the Universe

Tortoise Talisman
TORTOISE TALISMAN valued in the Far East as a protection against hostile magic

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