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
Rabbit Makes a Monkey of Lion Lion." and the "New York Times" described Pinkney's illustrations as having "a velvety softness". "Rabbit Makes a Monkey of Lion" has also been reviewed by the "School Library Journal", and "Booklist". Rabbit Makes a Monkey of Lion Rabbit Makes a Monkey of Lion: A Swahili Tale is a 1989 children's picture book by Verna Aardema and illustrated by Jerry Pinkney. It is an adaption of a Swahili folktale and is about Rabbit tricking Lion over a calabash tree. "Publishers Weekly" reviewed "Rabbit Makes a Monkey of Lion" writing "Aardema offers up a sound piece of storytelling, admirably reflected in Pinkney's