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The print illustrates a quotation from Peter Pindar engraved in twelve lines of verse in four columns below image: The modern bard says Tom, sublimely sings ... Farthings are not beneath the Royal Care! [signed] Pindars Ode upon Ode.
Attributed to Kingsbury in British Museum catalog.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
The interior of a shop in Windsor; Windsor Castle (right) is seen through the open sash-window of a parlour behind the shop. A long counter extends across the greater part of the design. The Queen is seated buying tape, which she holds appraisingly, looking with a satisfied smile to one of the Princesses seated on her left. The King stands on her right. Two fashionably dressed ladies stand in the foreground (left) in conversation. Two others make a purchase at the right end of the counter, one turning her head to look at a device for extending a skirt which she is trying on. The back wall is lined with boxes, &c. Above these are hung specimens of the fashionable petticoat inflators, a hat, &c. In the foreground a little girl holds an enormous muff; a dog, partly shaved in the French manner, barks at a cat which stands on a band-box with its back arched. In the back parlour of the shop (left) two women sit at a table sewing; a man sits between them threading a needle. The three shopmen behind the counter are elegantly dressed young men. 'Split farthing Milliner to her [Majesty]' is inscribed in large letters over the entrance to the parlour or work-room. Cf. British Museum online catalog.