A pack of foxes meeting in a forest

A pack of foxes meeting at the roots of a large tree in a forest. A vixen feeds her cubs. Council of foxes. Possibly to illustrate Jean de la Fontaine's The Fox With His Tail Cut Off. 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 Cubs Educational Fable Fables Of Aesop Fabulist Field Sports Foxes Gaius Julius Phaedrus Gay And Phaedrus Greek Author John Gay Moral Moral Tale New Work Of Animals Samuel Howitt Vixen

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