1878 – The Syrian Bear

“The Syrian Bear – by Harrison Weir” is a full page book plate image, taken from the “Chatterbox Album of Animals”, published by W.W.Gardner, circa 1878. The short anecdote accompanying the illustration, reads as follows: “This is the portrait of a Syrian Bear. It was a bear like this that David slew, as the animal was seizing a lamb out of the flock; and one of the same kind once killed forty-two children, who were so wicked as to mock at God’s prophet Elisha, as he went up from Jericho to Bethel.”

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