A courtcase between animals, with a lion and tiger as judges. The wolf makes a claim against the sheep, while the kite and vulture give false evidence. Sheep, wolf, vulture and kite before the judgement seat of the lion. 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.
A courtcase between animals, with a lion and tiger as judges. The wolf makes a claim against the sheep, while the kite and vulture give false evidence. Sheep, wolf, vulture and kite before the judgement seat of the lion. 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.