Memorial to the poet John Gay in Westminster Abbey by sculptor John Michael Rysbrack. Inscription by Alexander Pope. A winged Cupid holds an oval portrait under an obelisk with dramatic masks, trumpet and panpipes. Copperplate engraving by Wilson as a frontispiece to Fables by John Gay, with a Life of the Author, John Stockdale, London, 1793.

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