Batchelor's fare, bread cheese and kissesRowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker, artist[not before 10 February 1814]engA young man with a grotesquely long chin sits in a high back chair, kissing a pretty young woman who stands between his legs. Behind him a dog has his paws on the cloth-covered table on which is laid cheese and bread; a cat drinks from a pitcher on the ground. Through the door on the right, a fat older man sits on a stool, smoking his pipe as he looks up at another pretty girl. On the wall hangs his gun and game; above them hangs a bird in a cageTitle etched below image.Later state; former plate number "309" has been replaced, date following artist's signature has been altered from "1813" to "1818," and beginning of imprint statement has been burnished from plate.Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: Pubd. Feby. 10th, 1814, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside. Cf. No. 12400 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 9.Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides.Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4.Also issued separately.Plate numbered "285" in upper right corner.Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 253-4.Watermark: J. Whatman 1822.