Gretna Green [graphic].[15 December 1802]eng"The blacksmith, wearing a parsonic hat, wig, and gown, stands in the middle of his smithy between two couples. He holds the wrist of an elderly and eager woman (left), addressing a young one (right). Beneath the design: 'A Lady of Sixty, and a young woman of seventeen, lately presented themselves with their paramours at Gretna Green. "Hold hold (said the Matrimonial Vulcan to the Virgin) you are young and can wait a little, I see your Grandmother is impatient, let me put on her fetters first.'"--British Museum online catalogueTitle etched above image.Plate numbered '282' in lower left corner.From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls.Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed either by Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton.Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.