The Baboon and the Poultry. A disgraced baboon chained in a poultry pen is disrepected by a goose. Peafowl, chickens and chicks watch from the yard. Copperplate engraving by William Grainger after an illustration by Hubert Francois Bourguignon Gravelot from Fables by John Gay, with a Life of the Author, John Stockdale, London, 1793.

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