The Pin and the Needle. The rivalry between an arrogant pin and a lowly needle. A bearded old man holding a stick in a room with compasses and ruler on the floor, an Egyptian mummy, bow and arrow, vase, globe, bust, dead fish and the skeleton of a stag on the walls; an upright pin and needle on a table. 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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