A fat elderly citizen, solidly seated, is beset by two pretty young women who offer him fruit. His wife (left) says "You must have some apricots my love." The woman on his right adds, "Just taste these grapes brother in law you never eat finer." He shouts up with angry suspicion to the latter, "Won't eat anything more I tell you. I shall be choaked. Got an eye to the estate I suppose."
Description:
Title etched below image., Series title and number etched above image., Publication date from watermark., Original publication line: Pubd. Oct. 1, 1799, by R. Akerman, No. 101 Strand., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Later state of no. 9624 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Later state of print described by Joseph Grego in Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, p. 15., Temporary local subject terms: Female dress, 1799 -- Food: fruit., and Collector's stamp on verso: SP.
