Androcles Classical accounts. Agostino Veneziano depicts the slave Androcles being freed by the Emperor in a work from 1516-17 now in the LACMA collection. There is also an early pen and wash drawing by Baldassare Peruzzi dating from the 1530s in the Hermitage Museum. Dependent on the account by Aulus Gellius, it depicts Androcles walking through a doorway with the lion on a lead at his heel. Other artists have preferred the scene of Androcles pulling the thorn from the lion's paw, as in Bernhard Rode's print of 1784. A later American example is Walter Inglis Anderson's block print scroll of
A Rose Without a Thorn was adapted for Australian radio by Max Afford in 1940, a production much revived. It was also filmed by British TV in 1948. A Rose Without a Thorn A Rose without a Thorn is a 1958 Australian TV play about King Henry VIII's marriage to Katherine Howard. It was directed by Alan Burke from a play by Clifford Bax. The play was shown live in Sydney, recorded, then shown in Melbourne. It was the first production directed by Alan Burke after he joined the ABC full-time. Burke would go on to be one of the leading directors of the early