The Monkey who had seen the World. A foppish monkey in wig, coat, pigtail, and cravatte reads Thomas Paine's Rights of Man to a troop of apes under a tree. Copperplate engraving by Lovegrove after an illustration by John Wootton from Fables by John Gay, with a Life of the Author, John Stockdale, London, 1793.

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