A fox and a wolf are fighting each other in a pit with a crowd of animals looking on. Etching by A. Fox after J. Wolf.

  • Wolf, Joseph, 1820-1899.
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1853
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39609i
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A fox and a wolf are fighting each other in a pit with a crowd of animals looking on. Etching by A. Fox after J. Wolf. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The surrounding crowd consists of a lion and a lioness as royal couple on a throne, a leopard and a lynx in loinclothes and with halberds and a crowd of various animals looking on

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London : William Pickering, 1853.

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1 print : steel engraving, with etching ; image 13.2 x 9.3 cm

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Reynard the fox. "Glad Reynard deemed his conquest now secure; yet, tooth and nail held firm, to make sure; while the wolf, spent sprawling undermost; stifled and blind, himself gave up for lost". p. 308. J. Wolf del. Augs. Fox sc.

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Wellcome Collection 39609i

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