Lord kenyon (left), in wig and robes, flogs with great vigour the scarred back of lady buckinghamshire, whose wrists are tied to the back of a cart. He has a scourge in the right hand, a birch-rod in the left; from his pocket issues a paper: 'laws against gambling'. His head is in back view. His fat victim wears a feathered turban and fashionably dressed hair; her profile and gestures indicate shrieking protest. The horse plods (left to right) away from the spectator. On a pitchfork lashed to the cart is a placard: 'faro's daughter's beware'. Behind is a crowd, divided between those (right) who watch the cart, grinning, in front of whom stands a constable with his staff, and those in back view who surround a pillory in which stand two ladies, closely confined, under a rain of missiles flung by the mob. Both wear feathers in their hair, one (left) has a profile somewhat resembling that of lady archer, but is perhaps lady elizabeth luttrell; the other is probably mrs. Concannon. 25 march 1797
hand-coloured etching. Date: 1797. Dimensions: Height: 260 mm; Width: 363 mm. Medium: paper. Depicted People: Lady Sarah Archer. Collection: British Museum. Discipline a la Kenyon. (BM J,3.51)
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