Boatmen rescuing a man from a building in a flood, 18th century. Mr Jones saves his servant Henry marooned from the summer house. O God. Thou has had compassion on me! Thou hast heard my prayer! Pl 48, Vol. III. Copperplate engraving by William Blake after an illustration by Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki from Mary Wollstonecraft's translation of Christian Gotthilf Salzmann's Elements of Morality, London, 1791.

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