Lady Termagant Flaybum going to give her step son a taste of her desert after dinner a scene performed every day near Grosvenor Square, to the annoyance of the neigbourhood [sic]. [graphic]Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker[25 May 1786]eng"Lady Strathmore leans back in an armchair, her legs crossed; in her right hand is a birch-rod, she holds in her left hand the hand of a boy, her (supposed) step-son, whom another woman (right) holds out for chastisement. He is crying, the woman is about to take off his breeches. On the extreme right a dinner-table is partly visible, with a large tureen decorated with coat of arms and coronet. Lady Strathmore's hair is decorated with flowers and feathers, her breasts are much exposed and her appearance is meretricious."--British Museum online catalogueTitle etched below image.Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.Sheet trimmed within plate mark.1 print : etching & stipple engraving laid paper ; plate mark 43.8 x 54.9 cm, on sheet 45.1 x 56.2 cm.Mounted on leaf 34 of volume 7 of 12.