A raven tries to wash to be more like the white swans

A raven tries to wash out its black colour to be more like the pure-white swans in a pond. Raven and swans. An 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

Aesop Blackness Educational Fable Fables Of Aesop Fabulist Field Sports Gaius Julius Phaedrus Gay And Phaedrus Greek Author John Gay Moral Moral Tale New Work Of Animals Raven Samuel Howitt Wash

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