A young lioness crushing a mouse under its paw

A young lioness crushing a mouse under its paw, unaware that the mouse was to be her husband. Fatal marriage. 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

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