The Eagle

Harrison Weir

1861

Wood engraving; engraved by Edmund Evans.

5 x 4 inches

Illustration for The Poetry of Nature, selected and illustrated by Harrison Weir, p.87.

A magisterial image of the King of Birds, redolent of Tennyson’s poem, ‘The Eagle’.

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