By James Gillray; signed by Gillray with the initials of James Sayers.
Imprint is probably fictitious. Cf. George.
Library's copy torn and repaired; plate mark not clearly visible.
Print shows Lady Strathmore drinking with her servants; she leans back in her chair, a small flagon in her right hand, a glass in her left; her breasts are bare and are sucked by two cats. A little boy (John Strathmore) stands beside her chair crying; he says, "I wish I was a Cat my Mama would Love me then". A footman, wearing a nightcap and holding a candle, puts his hand on her arm, saying, "My Lady its time to come to Bed". A number of women-servants are seated at a rectangular table, the most prominent being one whose head and arms have advanced from her body and lean on the table; she holds out a glass to touch that of Lady Strathmore; in her right hand is a decanter; on her lap is a paper: 'Duty of a Ladies Maid, by M. Morgan see Old Baly Chronle'. A man observes them from behind a folding screen at right. On the extreme left a man examines a map on the wall of the '[Bowe]s Estate', and says, "We'll have it Farmer and nearer". He is either Stoney (afterwards Stoney-Bowes) or some other fortune-hunter. On the wall also hangs a bawdy picture titled 'Messalina'.