There is a reproduction of this plate; the size is the same, and the figures are not turned; "it is, however, not so bold and free in execution as the original, is much softened down, and carried out in great part in stipple, which is not the case in the plate etched by Rowlandson; moreover, the hair and faces of the girls differ. In a well decorated room, a young couple are in the act on a couch; two old men enter by a half opened door, one peeping through the key hole, the other pointing a blunderbuss at the unsuspecting young people.

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A very fat woman, in the act of eloping with a military gentleman, has fallen off the ladder placed against the window, and of which a stale is broken, and lies sprawling on the top of her lover. Titled by Schiff: "The Empress of Russia Receiving her Brave Guards"; [115] by Von Meier: "Catherine the Great".Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book. Maria is rescued and Tuckett starts investigating the crime himself, uncovering a complex and disturbing web of lies and impersonation. Leda is reclining in a kind of cave, with drapery arranged round her, but her person entirely nude, a coronet on her head; with her right leg, which is raised over its back, she presses the swan to her; the swan's head nestles between her breasts, and its beak and her mouth are united. An old Jew dressed, and with his hat on, supports himself with his left hand on the back of a chair, whilst with his right he raises the clothes of a young and particularly plump girl.

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Another soldier at some little distance, seated on the ground, is examining the genitals of a lass extended before him. A country girl, upstanding, with her posterior pushed well back, her breasts, arms, and all the lower part of her person bare, is working with both hands a perpendicular churn; while a black man, supporting himself by his right hand on a table, his left holding up the dairy-maid's clothes, is stooping forward, and having connection with her. An old man, rage depicted on his face, is about to stab the youth with a dagger, which he brandishes in his right hand, while, in his left, he holds a lighted candle. A youth, dressed, kneels on one knee before her; in his left hand he holds his large, stiff member, while he clasps the girl's left ankle with his right hand.A youth, lying flat on his back on a bench, copulates with a girl who straddles across him; she is dressed in a hat and feather, and waves with her right hand a handkerchief to a ship, visible through the open window; her clothes are rolled up above her waist, ut semper, and her posteriors and breasts are bare. One girl is turning the handle of the grindstone, and another, standing above it, is urinating upon it; both girls are almost entirely naked, and their figures are plump.