The Old Woman and her Cats. Four large cats play around an old woman in pointed hat with a wooden leg seated on a wicker basket in a room with fireplace under a collapsing thatched roof. 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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