[A group at Bath.], Isaac Cruikshank, 1796

Plate 26 to 'eccentric excursions, or. Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance, character and country, in. . England & south wales'. Four ladies at a round card-table, two elderly partners quarrelling violently, while male bystanders take a part in the quarrel. Described by woodward as taken from macklin's 'man of the world' (see bmsat 8954): 'a peer and a sharper; - a duchess, and a pin maker's wife - a boarding school miss, and her grandmother - a fat parson - a lean general - and a yellow admiral, quarrelling about an odd trick at a game at whist. ' 8 october 1796 hand-coloured etching. Date: 1796. Dimensions: Height: 171 mm; Width: 251 mm. Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum. (A group at Bath.) (BM 1927,0308.126)