Memorial to the poet John Gay in Westminster Abbey

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

1793 Aesop Book Illustration Cupid Fable Fables Frontispiece John Gay John Stockdale Life Of The Author Moral Obelisk Oval Portrait Panpipes Stipple Westminster Abbey Winged

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