A mastiff chained to a kennel arguing with a hunting hound. The fox hound complains that the guard dog is fed with meat from the chase despite doing nothing. Mastiff and hound. Illustration of a fable by Greek author Aesop. 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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