The village magistrate [graphic]Dickinson, William, 1746 or 1747-1823, printmakerpubd. according to act of Parlt. March 10th 1772.eng"Singerie copy of Hogarth's painting, 'A woman swearing a child to a grave citizen'; a pregnant young woman with the face of a cat standing to right, swearing on a book before a monkey-faced magistrate who sits at a bench to left, that the child is by an old man who raises his hands and eyes to heaven, protesting innocence; his cat-faced wife shakes her fist, upbraiding him, and the true father, a young man with a monkey's face, crouches behind the woman, whispering counsel; beside the magistrate to left, two animal-faced children play."--British Museum online catalogueTitle engraved below image.After William Hogarth.Sheet trimmed to plate mark.Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.On page 11 in volume 1.