An eagle presides over a court of birds in a tree .A magpie, owl, vulture, and sparrow in attendance. Council of birds. The vulture, the sparrow and other birds. 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.

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Caption: An eagle presides over a court of birds in a tree .A magpie, owl, vulture, and sparrow in attendance. Council of birds. The vulture, the sparrow and other birds. 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.

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Image size: 6087 × 4662 px | 81.2 MB

Print size: 51.5 × 39.5 cm | 2396.5 × 1835.4 in (300 dpi)

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