A weak and dying lion is attacked on all sides. A donkey kicks him in the face, a boar and a cow gore him. A horse and stag watch. Old lion insulted. 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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