Satire on practical jokery. A grand interior with a fashionably-dressed young man kneeling on the left to light a miniature cannon and fire at the skirts of a young woman who sits on the right, sleeping with her chin on her hand, her elbow on a round table near an inkpot and an open book labelled 'To thee / o gentle / Sleep'; two other men stand watching behind the first; an oval portrait of an old woman in 17th century dress on the wall in upper right and neo-classical chimney-piece to left.  1773
<br>Mezzotint
1773<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1773-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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