Conjugal affection from the original picture presented to the city by Aldn. Boydell / [graphic]

"A wealthy middle class family gathered in a room, the father standing in the centre, leaning on the back of a chair which his youngest child stands upon, embracing him, a son standing beside pointing to an open book and the mother sitting at left, gazing to right while another daughter beside plays with a kitten, a bird in a cage on table beside; at right an older son looks out anxiously at the ships on river beyond, his coat over his arm.."--British Museum online catalogue

The paintings on the back wall of the room and the statue above the doorway amplify the moral subject of the print