A setter creeps up on a game bird

A setter creeps up on a game bird while two hunters with nets approach. Setting dog and partridge. 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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