Outside a rural house, a man and a woman making love on the porch at right, she sitting on a garden seat, he holding up her left leg; an arch above the door supported by two priapic figures, fantail skylight just seen; at a window directly above, a stout man with a pipe contemplates a caged bird; avidly watching the couple from left, a young woman with her arm about a tree trunk and her skirts about her waist touches herself; on the ground at lower left, a milk-pail, basket and a cock mounting a hen. Etching with stipple. Date: 1790-1810 (c.). Dimensions: Height: 176 mm (trimmed); Width: 149 mm (trimmed). Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum. The rookery (BM 1977,U.574)
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