A lion stands with its left foreleg on the belly of a deer, watched by a snarling bear, wolf and fox. Lion, bear, fox and wolf. 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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