[A country vicar's fire-side] [art original].Wigstead, Henry, artist[approximately 1786]zxx"In front of a roaring fire sits a stout old cleric in a powdered wig, with a clay pipe in his mouth and a pot of hot toddy on the trivet. On the other side of the hearth sits his old wife, and [...] a pretty daughter with a book on her lap, to which she pays more attention than to the curate or schoolmaster, who is making love to her in the intervals of using the billows."--Paston, G. Social caricature in the eighteenth centuryTitle, artist, and approximate date from the 1786 exhibition catalogue of the Royal Academy.Unsigned. Misattributed to William Hogarth in the 20th century.In a period carved and gilded swept frame.Design was engraved (in reverse, with minor changes) by Edward Williams, with the resulting print published in 1788 by John Raphael Smith. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0822.7119.