The Man and the Flea. A man contemplates the ocean from the shore, while a flea sits on his nose and humiliates him. Copperplate engraving by Lovegrove after an illustration by Hubert Francois Bourguignon Gravelot from Fables by John Gay, with a Life of the Author, John Stockdale, London, 1793.

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