Two owls and a sparrow

A sparrow talks to a long-eared owl and a barn owl perched on a branch in a stone archway. Two owls and a sparrow. 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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