Vixen fleeing from hunting hounds with her cub in her mouth. The kit was taken by a farmer in his yard but the female red fox managed to escape. After an incident that occurred near Chelmsford, Essex, 18th century. 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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