Maggs Bros.

There is a coloured impression in the British Museum. The (coloured) example in the Lewis Walpole Library at Yale has the date scratched out in the imprint.

This mezzotint shows a scene outside a public house where two women stand in a door-way with ‘Wines. &c.’ above the threshold. The women are bring approached by a man dressed elegantly (the BM description describes him as a “fop”): he holds a cane in his left hand and uses his right to hold a glass to his eye; through which he peers at a young woman who glances back at him. The second woman (older and larger than the first) grins as she points to her companion (she may well be her madam). A sign on the façade of the building behind is inscribed with the (knowing, double entendre) phrase: “kind and tender usage”. The engraving appears to be a multi-faceted satire on the dangers of drinking establishments, the prevalence of prostitutes and the absurdity of foppish fashion.