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.
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.