The Man, the Cat, the Dog and the Fly. A Georgian gentleman sits at a table with pet dog and cat, about to kill that noxious vagrant sponger, a fly. Man sitting in a dining room decorated with naval landscapes. Copperplate engraving by Wilson 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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