1-158-956 - Oxford Science Archive/Heritage Images

'The Swan, Goose and Duck', c1850. The central image is of the three different birds. Surrounding vignettes show (clockwise from top left): geese in a farmyard; shooting wild duck; goose quills for writing pens; handles for artist's brushes; feather mattresses; swans and ducks on a pond at the Ornithological Society's premises in Regent's Park, London; swansdown for fashionable trimmings; geese at a market. From Graphic Illustrations of Animals and Their Utility to Man published by Thomas Varty. (London, c1850).