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Print attacking Robert Walpole (sometimes referred to as "the Norfolk Dumpling" by his political enemies) with allegations that he had an illegitimate son by the name of Edward Taylor.
A small man with a large head and a moustache, wearing a badly fitting wig and an apron holds up a glass as if in a toast. His other arm rests on a stone lettered "Edw. Taylor alias W[a]lp[o]le. Born at LYNN in Norfolk. 1703"; at his feet is a shoe-black's basket, with rags and brushes and a little stool. In the foreground on the left are the arms of the Earls of Orford between two stags with a bar of illegitimacy across the shield and the mottos "HONOUR'S VOID WITH OUT THE PENCE" and "THE DOG & DUCKs MY TASTE", and on the right a cartouche with a quotation from the fifth Commandment "Exodus Chaq[sic] XX/And Visit the Sins of the Fathers Upon the Children Unto the third & Fourth Generation of them that hate me." On an ornate frame at the top right is a bearded head wearing a fool's cap in imitation of the crest of the Walpole family. Cf. British Museum online catalog.