The Female Orators, 1768

A confrontation between two market women on a street, at left the woman with hands on her hips leans angrily towards her opponent who smiles sarcastically and holds out her hands as if applauding, behind her a man taps her shoulder and points with amuseument at a bill on a wall above, reading "theatre royal covent garden epicoene or the silent woman"; the altercation watched by surrounding figures including a fiddler and a man leaning on a rail behind them, while a boy at right takes advantage of the distraction to take from one of the women's forgotten baskets, a dog sniffing at the other, laden with fish, which sits on the floor between them, at left a gentleman hurries from his sedan with hands over his ears; after john collet. Nov 20 1768 etching and engraving. Date: 1768. Dimensions: Height: 257 mm; Width: 365 mm. Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum.