Illustrations of the fable have appeared on domestic objects, including a Chelsea plate in 1755[17] and a tile in the Minton Aesop's Fables series during the 1880s. In 1990 it was to be used on one of a set of four Zambian stamps featuring folk tales.[18]In 19th century Britain the political cartoonist John Doyle adapted the fable to one of his monthly series of prints in February 1844. In it the mouse nibbling at the net is Earl Russell, who prevailed on the House of Lords to free the leonine Daniel O'Connell from the imprisonment he had incurred for trying to repeal the Irish Act Of Union.[19] In the United States the fable was applied to a case of corrupt lobbying in a Puck cartoon for 23 July 1913.[20] Under the title 'Even a rat may help free a lion', the House of Representatives is shown enmeshed in the nets of "Lobbyism", from which Colonel (Martin) Mulhall is about to free it by his revelations of bribe-taking.[21]The fable was made into an animated cartoon by Aesop's Film Fables in 1922; there was also a two-minute cartoon incorporating the fable and ending with an advertisement for Coca-Cola as a promoter of friendship that was issued in 1953.[22] In 1966 the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) adapted the story as The Bear and the Mouse; it was issued as a short feature film using real animals with voice-over.[23] This film was followed 10 years later by an NFB animated short The Lion and the Mouse, directed by Evelyn Lambart.[24]In 1946, a New York game company produced the attractive The Lion and the Mouse game, with detailed molded plastic pieces of a lion, a mouse and two hunters in each of four colors. A photo of the game can be found as part of an article on games based on books and fables.[25]Though the fable is frequently a subject of children's literature, Jerry Pinkney's The Lion & the Mouse (2009) tells it through pictures alone, without the usual text of such books, and won the 2010 Caldecott Medal for its illustrations.[26] The story is updated and adapted to fit the conditions of the Serengeti National Park, in which it is set.[27]
