Attributed to Thomas Rowlandson. Cf. British Museum online catalog.
Individual image removed from a larger print entitles "Two new sliders for the state magic lanthern", consisting of a series of ten images in two rows, presented as two magic lantern "sliders" (long slides containing multiple images to be successively pushed or slid before the lens); this being number ten of ten numbered panels.
Print shows a scene in Hades; water on the left, from which rises a rock or mountain (right); the background is composed of flames, in the smoke of which is the figure of a minute demon. The head and shoulders of Burke (left) as Tantalus appear from the water. Fox (a fox) as Ixion is bound to the centre of a wheel. North as Sisyphus climbs up the rock, pushing before him a spherical boulder.