Rural sports, or, Game at quoits [graphic]Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker[not before 30 October 1811]eng"Villagers play quoits outside a gabled, thatched, and dilapidated inn, the sign: 'Asses Milk sold here' and 'Dirty Dick'. The quoits lie round a peg in the right foreground watched by a bull-dog. One man is about to throw. There is norie of the rustic prosperity and gaiety of other plates in the series. The players are in their working-clothes, some with aprons. A fat butcher drains a tankard (right) spilling its contents, and watched with anger by a lean man. A grossly fat woman with a donkey flirts shamelessly with two men, one a crippled beggar, while the animal eats from the fruit in a pannier on its back. A half-naked termagant leans over a paling to beat a bystander with her broom; behind her is a notice: 'Washing and mangling done here'. A woman carrying an infant angrily tries to drag away an absorbed spectator. In the background villagers drink and embrace, and a thin man rides a kicking donkey. A view of the grosser side of rural life, with the suggestion that these are the village wastrels."--British Museum online catalogueTitle etched below image.Reissue, with beginning of imprint statement crossed out.Date of publication based on earlier state with the intact imprint "Pubd. October 30th, 1811, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 75 W87 807 v.2."Price one shilling coloured."Plate numbered "97" in upper left corner.Mounted on leaf 68a (i.e. verso of leaf 67) of volume 11 of 14 volumes.