Mr Deputy Dumpling and Family enjoying a Summer Afternoon, Robert Dighton, 1781

A family party walking past the entrance to bagnigge wells: a fat citizen, his wig awry and dripping with perspiration, carries a little girl who holds a whip. His stout wife walks behind (right) holding a fan in one hand, a tasselled cane in the other, she smiles complacently. In front, a small boy drags a small four-wheeled chair in which sits a doll-like child holding a doll. The background is the corner of a brick house (right) showing part of a bow-window inscribed "dealer in coffee", and a gate inscribed "bagnigge wells" with an ogive-shaped decoration surmounting the architrave. Behind are trees. The design evidently derives from hogarth's "evening", see bmsat 2382 (1738). 1781 mezzotint. Date: 1781. Dimensions: Height: 350 mm; Width: 253 mm. Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum. Mr Deputy Dumpling and Family enjoying a Summer Afternoon (BM 1873,0712.915)