An eagle attacking its keeper in revenge for a whipping a week before. The eagle wounded the man terribly and escaped after breaking its chains. Based on an incident in the south of Scotland. Golden eagle, Aquila chrysaetos. 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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