The farmer's return [graphic]Basire, James, 1730-1802, printmaker[March 1762]engThe interior of a farmer's cottage, with the farmer seated in an armchair next to a table looking at his wife (right) whose jug in her left hand spills out. To the left of the farmer, on either side of the table, are their two children, a son and daughter (gesturing in surprise as she looks at her mother). The hearth on the left is equipped with a pot hanging above a large fire; a rifle above the mantel piece, a cat on the floor gazing at the fireTitle etched below image.State, publisher, and date from Paulson.Plate to: Nichols's Genuine works of Hogarth. Ms. list in copy 3 makes notes of an “admirable copy by the same artist”.Used as a frontispiece to: Garrick, D. The farmer's return from London. London : Printed by Dryden Leach, for J. and R. Tonson, in the Strand, MDCCLXII [1762].Sheet trimmed to plate mark.Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: See Mr. Nichols's book, 3d edit, p. 374.On page 189 in volume 2.