The stout miss jefferies (right) flees from 'the monster' towards a gateway (right), where pitt advances to protect her, carrying a warming-pan. He says "i'll relieve her". She lifts her petticoats as she runs, uncovering her posteriors which george hanger as the monster, nude to the waist and with a tail and the legs of a bird of prey, threatens with a spike which protrudes from the end of the bludgeon with which he is habitually depicted (cf. Bmsat 6924). He wears his large cocked hat. He is threatened by flashes of lightning from the upper right corner of the design. A man on the extreme left lies on the ground holding the monster by the tail and calling out "o save my namsake". A profile (a portrait) extends from the left margin of the design, saying, "well done jeffrey hold him fast by the tail". Within the gateway is pasted a bill: 'whereas an attack was made on a young lady of this parish by a monster. . '. 18 may 1790. Hand-coloured etching. Date: 1790. Dimensions: Height: 254 mm; Width: 344 mm. Medium: paper. Depicted People: George Hanger, 4th Baron Coleraine. Collection: British Museum. Glaucus and Scylla or the monster in full cry (BM 1868,0808.5937)
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