1-158-951 - Oxford Science Archive/Heritage Images

'Domestic Fowl', c1850. The central image shows a cockerel, hens and chicks. Surrounding vignettes show (clockwise from top left): buying and selling chickens at market; a farmer's wife in the poultry yard; collecting eggs from nesting boxes; poulterer's shop; cooking chickens on a spit; mattress and pillows filled with feathers; children playing shuttlecock; tail feathers used for a military cockade; eggs and chicken for food. From Graphic Illustrations of Animals and Their Utility to Man published by Thomas Varty. (London, c1850).