Summers Evening (BM 1917,1208.2551)

A landscape with figures, showing citizens driving and walking on the outskirts of London, probably on Sunday. In the foreground (left) is a family group: man, wife, three children, and two dogs; the stout man carries his hat and wig, and mops his head. Two young butchers with a bulldog watch a high gig with two horses, driven recklessly by a stout citizen with a courtesan seated beside him. The gig passes a stage-coach driving in the opposite direction; coachman and inside and outside passengers turn to look at it, as do the humble occupants of the basket behind the coach. In the distance carriages of various sorts disappear in a cloud of dust; one man drives with his arm round a woman's waist. In the background (right) are cottages with a pot-house or kiln; etched state. 11 April 1784
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