The Yorkshire bumkins mistake [graphic]

"An obese country footman stands at the door of a large town house, addressing a fashionable London servant, who stands (left) between the two pillars of the porch, his hands behind his back, legs astride. The latter says: "Tell the Dowager, My Lady is gone to Court." The other: "Gone to Court!! come thats a good one--I thought she was married-- you Lononers be strange people to be sure--Gone to Court! Mercy on us! why where I come from the Leadies always expect--that of the Men." He wears a gold-laced cocked hat and livery coat; a gold-headed cane is in his right hand; his left hand is in his coat-pocket (a characteristic of uncouth servants in these prints). Behind him is a bull-terrier, behind the other a greyhound. In the background are the trees of a square backed by houses, with a statue in the garden suggestive of Berkeley or Cavendish Square. In the roadway a coroneted sedan-chair is borne off by two liveried chair-men, preceded by two footmen."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state