Two men at the bedside of an old man in a garret, 18th century. Mr Jones visits the weaver Martin, who has been starved in a decrepit garret by his cruel O God! Thou art just! 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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