A traveller in turban plays dead while attacked by a bear

A traveller in turban plays dead while attacked by a bear. Another traveller hides in a tree. The bear the two travellers. 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 Clearing Educational Fable Fables Of Aesop Fabulist Field Sports Gaius Julius Phaedrus Gay And Phaedrus Greek Author Hide John Gay Moral Moral Tale New Work Of Animals Samuel Howitt Treachery

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