A pack of foxes meeting at the roots of a large tree in a forest. A vixen feeds her cubs. Council of foxes. Possibly to illustrate Jean de la Fontaine’s The Fox With His Tail Cut Off. Copperplate etching drawn and engraved from life by Samuel Howitt from his own A New Work of Animals, Principally Designed from the Fables of Aesop, Gay and Phaedrus, Edward Orme, London, 1811.

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