[The farmer's return] [graphic].[not before 1762]engCopy in reverse of a print by Basire, after Hogarth: The interior of a farmer's cottage, with the farmer seated in an armchair next to a table looking at his wife (left) whose jug in her left hand spills out. To the rigtht 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 right 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 from another copy, signed by the printmaker Basire.Plate to: Nichols's Genuine works of Hogarth. Ms. list in copy 3 makes notes of an “admirable copy by the same artist”.Original 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.Copy in reverse of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 240.Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: Copy.On page 189 in volume 2.