Copy of a woman swearing a child to a grave citizen, after hogarth; a pregnant young woman standing to right, swearing on a book before a magistrate who sits at a bench to left with a book labelled 'law of bastadry [sic]' in front of him, that the child is by an old man wearing a dark wig with a ruff hanging at his waist, while he raises his hands and eyes to heaven, protesting innocence, his wife, wearing a coif and bonnet shakes her fist, upbraiding him, and the true father, a young man, crouches behind the woman, whispering counsel; beside the magistrate to left, a little girl sits teaching a dog to walk on its hind legs. Etching and engraving. Date: 1730-1735 (circa). Dimensions: Height: 304 mm; Width: 357 mm. Medium: paper. Depicted People: Sir Thomas De Veil. Collection: British Museum. Print, satirical print (BM Cc,2.245)
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