Woodward (George Moutard) After.

the frontispiece to the 2nd edition of ‘Eccentric Excursions, or Literary & Pictorial Sketches of Countenance, Character & Country in different parts of England & South Wales’, a roundel containing two starkly contrasting characters, a jolly rotund figure, his beaming face below a large night cap turned to the viewer, his laughter causing him to hold the sides of his generous paunch, his girth partially obscuring a gaunt, thin-lipped man looking down under heavy eyelids at his own tensely clasped hands,

etching by Isaac Cruikshank with original hand-colouring, 260 x 195 mm. (10 1/4 x 7 3/4 in), slight surface dirt with one or two marginal spots, [BM Satires 8929],