A peacock is bitten to death by a weasel with an apprehensively looking crowd of birds watching the gruelling scene from the safety of tree. Etching by J. E. Ridinger.

Among the birds gathered on the branch are a parrot, a magpie, a kingfisher and a buzzard. The backdrop to the scene is a bucolic idyll, complete with rainbow, cypresses and water cascades

Illustrates a fable about the dangers of supercilious pride

[Augsburg] : J. E. Ridinger

1 print : etching, with engraving ; image 29.6 x 23.6 cm

Fabul: VIII: Andere verachtender Stolz wird selbst zu schanden. J. E. Ridinger inv. sculp. et excud. Lettering continues with repeating the German title in French and Latin Bears number (in pencil) bottom left : T 772

Wellcome Collection 39415i