"A clerical J.P., ugly and elderly, sits full-face in a high-backed arm-chair, looking towards a demure young girl (left), who stands in profile to the right. His face is contorted with perplexity; the position of his feet indicates acute uncertainty. A man seated behind her on the extreme left listens intently through an ear-trumpet. An ugly and satyr-like man stands beside the Justice's chair. Three similar men, and an old and bedizened woman, are seated by a table on the right, listening with amusement. Beneath the title: 'My Dear little Girl what have you been about, they say you are pregnant - I really dont know your Worship - Some Wicked Wretch is the Cause of this report - But If I have done any thing amiss Sir, I am sure I was Dreaming'. L. & W., No. 105."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Two lines of text below title: My dear little girl, what have you been about ..., No. 105 in Laurie & Whittle Drolls series., Temporary local subject terms: Justices of the Peace -- Pictures amplifying subject: print with Ten Commandments -- Plantiffs -- Defendants -- Furniture: armchairs -- Female costume: head-dress -- Pregnancy., and The word "pregnant" in the first line of text below title erased from this copy and replaced in contemporary hand with "So! So!"
Publisher:
Published 12th May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
