The state of portrait & historical painting towards the latter end of the eighteenth century / [graphic]

Satirical print showing the fanciful interior of an artist's studio, with one painter (right) finishing a portrait of an aged admiral with a wooden leg seated in a chair (far right) while a second artist works on a painting of the Rape of Europa, an almost naked woman (possibly Lady Hamilton) rides an enormous bull with a saddle, holding onto its tail and horn as it enters a river. Two men in a row boat and two ducks in the river and a man blowing a horn on the cliff above (top right of the painting) provide a scale for the drama