The Irish poets grace to a short allowance! [graphic]Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker[not before January 1807]eng"Scene in a ramshackle attic, with a curtained bed on the right. A family sit at a table covered with a tattered cloth, on which are part of a loaf and four small potatoes. The ragged, lean, and elderly man (left) faces his still more haggard wife. A small boy stands by his mother, a youth and little girl sit opposite. All scowl with dismay at the meagre fare. A starving cat miaows. The man recites: "O! thou that blest the loaves and fishes, Look down upon these two poor dishes, And though the 'tatoes are but small, Oh make them large enough for all. For if they should our bellies fill 'Twill be a kind of Miricle!!!"."--British Museum online catalogueTitle etched below image.Later state, with beginning of imprint statement burnished from plate.Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: Pubd. Janry. 1807 by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London. Cf. Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 807.01.00.06.1.Printseller's announcement following imprint statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent.Plate numbered "113" in upper right corner.Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2.Leaf 52 in volume 2.