A Welch Justice., Isaac Cruikshank, 1800 (? circa)

A fat elderly justice sits at his table (right) clutching his head. He is drink-blotched and wears old-fashioned dress with slippers. He says to a shrewish countrywoman, who faces him, bawling: "look you coot woman, all you say may be ferry true. - but hur makes it a rule never to hear put one side of the question; - for if hur hears poth; it pothers hur poor prains, in such a manner hur does not know what hur is apout. " a delighted man (left) stands behind the woman, grinning broadly. C. 1800 hand-coloured etching. Date: 1800 (? circa). Dimensions: Height: 233 mm (cropped); Width: 332 mm (cropped). Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum. A Welch Justice. (BM 1935,0522.8.94 1)