Four men, two ladies, and two small children surround a circular table on which is a twelfth cake decorated with figures and standing on a plate inscribed 'sacred to love'. They have all drawn tickets except a pretty young woman on the right, to whom a smiling young man holds out a hat containing one inscribed 'miss tender', while he slips a letter into her hand. Her vis-à-vis, a hunch-backed elderly man, has drawn 'punch'. The scene is described in verses beneath the title:
'to chuse king and queen, a queer set was assembled,
a motley group of paste figures they greatly resembled,
that my lord he drew punch, his son master slender
old square toes was cuckold, his lady miss tender. To the left of my lord a pert simpering miss,
on whom none had dared to venture a kiss;
but as ill chance would have it, chose draggle-tail doll,
and see over their shoulders peeps old father paul. ' 12 may 1794
etching with stipple. Date: 1794. Dimensions: Height: 198 mm; Width: 247 mm. Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum. Twelfth night (BM 1861,0518.995)
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