Woodward (George Moutard) After.

plate 87 of ‘Eccentric Excursions, or Literary & Pictorial Sketches of Countenance, Character & Country in different parts of England & South Wales’, a narrative tour comprising humorous anecdotes from various towns, this scene set in the Blue Bell Inn near Risley in Derbyshire, depicting a yokel of simple demeanor in smock and hat, sitting by a table with a lamp and a tankard on it, his mouth agape as he listens to a tinker, standing before him with his pack on his back, a stout stick under his arm and canine companion by his feet, reading aloud from a newspaper,

etching by Isaac Cruikshank, 255 x 195 mm. (10 x 7 3/4 in), faint dampstaining upper left, one edge slightly ragged from previous binding, [BM Satires 9149],