1878 – Dead Sheldrake

“Dead Sheldrake – by Harrison Weir” is a full page book plate image, taken from the ‘Chatterbox Album of Animals”, published by W.W.Gardner, circa 1878. Instead of the usual anecdote accompanying the illustration, in this instance a short paragraph has been added as follows: “Two loving Sheldrakes, lived happily together for a long time. But one day a boy, throwing a stone, killed one of them, and its mate pined away, and died of grief shortly after. Let us hope that accident and not intention caused the death of these innocent birds.”

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