Caption:
Old hag seated at the hearth in a hovel surrounded by cats and taken for a witch. The old woman and her cats. Illustration of a fable by English poet John Gay. 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.