Fierce as staring Ajax from his seat, uprose with visage stern the king of meat canto 2d. [graphic]Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker[1787]eng"A room crowded with cooks and scullions : a tall cook addresses the others with clenched fist, holding the queue of his hair. The others make similar gestures of indignation ; one negligently holds a spit transfixing a bird which a dog is eating. Against the wall hang birds, &c., and a poster: Royal Bill of Fare ... second course."--British Museum CatalogueTitle etched below image.Printmaker and date from British Museum catalogue.Variant state of plate issued with the title: Cooks, scullions, hear me evr'y mother's son. Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 204.Frontispiece to: Pindar, P. The Lousiad. An heroi-comic poem. Canto II. London : Printed for G. Kearsley ..., [1787]Sheet trimmed within plate mark.Mounted on leaf 72 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.