Le retour de Paris, or, The neice presented to her relations by her French governess / E.H.L del. ; etched by G. Cruikshank.

An older couple (left), plainly dressed in a very old-fashioned manner, watch with shocked dismay an over-dressed Frenchwoman who takes by the wrist an equally over-dressed girl, making her curtsey, as she does herself. Their dresses are high-waisted, flounced, and vandyked, with neck-ruffles and short puffed sleeves. Both wear huge bonnets with erect cylindrical crowns, grotesquely trimmed, long gloves, each with a reticule dangling from the arm. A French servant in livery (right) stands chapeau-bras, a band-box slung from his arm, shrugging his shoulders to express horrified surprise. A plainly dressed young girl standing behind her aunt grins in astonishment at the visitors. A dog and cat register hostility towards a cringing lap-dog shaved in the French manner, which is attached to the servant with a string. The room is panelled and carpeted, with one side-table, and is probably a hall or ante-room in a country house. A dialogue is etched below the design. The young girl: "Well-a-day Aunt! what Monstrosities are these?" The uncle: "In the name of all that's Christian speak & say what you are, & where you come from, you Hottenpots [sic]--." The governess: "Madame j'ai l'honneur de vous presenter votre Neice, elle est tout-a-fait Françoise, parle notre langue à la perfection, Chante comme un Ange, danse comme Terpsichore elle même mange les Grenouilles." The niece: "Ma chere Tante Mon Oncle ma Seeur [sic], ne connoissez vous pas votre petite Emilie?" The aunt: "Aye dont talk to me of Turpuschore & Green-Owls or any of your Hocus-pocus nonsense--Speak plain English you Mountebanks do--or I'll make you answer before my Husband one of his Majesty's Justices--I will." The servant: "Oh Diable! comme je tremble quand je regarde le visage menacant de ce grand Monsieur Bull, et quand j'entend [sic] la voix barbare de cette Grenadiere je suis pret à mourir--mais je me cacherai autant que je peux derrière Madame." Cf. British Museum online catalog.