"A small ugly man trots (walking left to right) deprecatingly beside his wife, a large, over-dressed, scowling termagant, on their Sunday outing. He carries her umbrella, cloak, pattens, and a bundle in a check handkerchief. She holds a fan. An elderly man (right) walking in the opposite direction looks angrily at the couple; he swaggers in front of his pretty young wife, who appears pregnant and walks carrying a little girl and an umbrella. Behind them is an inn with the sign: 'The Old Swant [sic] Ordinary on Sunday'. A couple sit on a bench."--British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Hen peckd husband and Hen pecked husband
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Variant state without plate number. Cf. No. 10909 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., and The last 'p' in 'Nincompoop' was erased, but remnants are visible.
