A flock of sheep wait for slaughter by a butcher

A flock of sheep wait for slaughter by a butcher, and a boar mocks them from the long grass. Wild boar, sheep and butcher. 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

Aesop Barn Boar Butchery Educational Fable Fables Of Aesop Fabulist Field Sports Flock Gaius Julius Phaedrus Gay And Phaedrus Greek Author John Gay Moral Moral Tale New Work Of Animals Pasture Samuel Howitt Slaughter Wild Boar

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