Scene outside a rural inn with the sign of the 'cock & bottle'; a knife-grinder with an erect member grinds a large blade, looking up at a young woman who stands above the grindstone, lifting her skirts to urinate; another young woman with her skirts about her waist turning the wheel at left, and a woman making love to a young man on a seat by the door looking on at right; figures including a bare-breasted girl looking from the windows of the inn; farming implements on the ground at right; after a print by rowlandson, but with the women's faces and bodies altered within the outline. Etching and stipple. Date: 19th century. Dimensions: Height: 173 mm (trimmed); Width: 122 mm (trimmed). Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum. Tally I O the grinder (BM 1977,U.539)
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