Itinerant vegetable seller reunited with his faithful ass in London. The ass carrying two baskets of produce had run away and been chased by over 50 people. Ass or donkey, Equus africanus asinus. From an anecdote by Swan in John Church’s Cabinet of Quadrupeds, 1805. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Reverend Thomas Smith’s The Naturalist’s Cabinet, or Interesting Sketches of Animal History, Albion Press, James Cundee, London, 1806. Smith, fl. 1803-1818, was a writer and editor of books on natural history, religion, philosophy, ancient history and astronomy.

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