The Miser and Plutus. A winged bearded figure of Plutus, Greek god of wealth, stands in front of a miser protecting his hoard of treasure in a chest. Copperplate engraving by William Blake after an illustration by William Kent from Fables by John Gay, with a Life of the Author, John Stockdale, London, 1793.

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