Tame peewit relaxing by the fire with pet cat and dog in a house in winter. After an anecdote sent by the Reverend J. Carlyle to wood-engraver and naturalist Thomas Bewick. 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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