A fox carrying a flaming torch in its mouth is climbing up a tree in order to reach the eagle's nest in which an eagle is about to feed the eaglets with a cub. Etching by J. Kirk after F. Barlow for a fable by Aesop.

Aesop

Lettering: The eagle's nest. 7. F. Barlow delin. Ja. s. Kirk fecit. A fox cub the kingly eagle prest, and bore the trembler to the royal nest;