Etched by James Gillray after a design by C. Loraine Smith.
Print shows a dilapidated post-chaise outside a ramshackle inn. The driver is lashing the horses cruelly while a boy lifts a pitch-fork to strike, and a barefooted slattern approaches from the right with a huge red-hot poker. From the post-chaise leans its occupant, who wears a ribbon and star, and a night-cap.His feet have broken through the ruinous chaise; he threatens the driver with his cane; the latter's words are etched after the title: '"------"Forward immediately your Honour; But sure a'nt I waiting for the Girl with the Poker "just to give this Mare a burn your Honour, 'tis just to make her start your Honour.' The chaise is roofed with thatch on which a cock is pecking; it is held together by rope, the reins and traces are of rope. The wheels are broken. Above the door of the inn is a placard: 'The New Thatched-House Tavern'. On the signboard an eagle attacking a naked infant (Ganymede) is depicted; above is a board: 'Nate Post-Chaise and Whiskey Nate Entertainment for Man & Beast.' From a brick chimney a little sweep looks out waving his brush. On a bench by the door a man with a crutch and wooden leg sits smoking and drinking. In the foreground a lean sow eats from a heap of potatoes; a young pig attempts to suck; another, almost a skeleton, tries to eat potatoes.