A lion eating the carcass of a stag in a cave. A cunning fox had flatttered it into the lion's den. Stag in the lion's den. The lion, fox and stag. 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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Caption: A lion eating the carcass of a stag in a cave. A cunning fox had flatttered it into the lion's den. Stag in the lion's den. The lion, fox and stag. 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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Image size: 5906 × 4564 px | 77.1 MB

Print size: 50.0 × 38.6 cm | 2325.2 × 1796.9 in (300 dpi)

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