Two figures stand side by side: a skeleton (l.) wearing a feathered hat, a coat, and sword, a lady (r.) holding a cloak round her, and wearing feathers in her hair. She points with her left hand to a rectangular tomb, on which is inscribed "Requiescas in pace" beneath a skull and cross-bones. They are standing on a road which leads to a large country house with a Palladian portico over which is a baron's coronet. In the air a cupid flies away, covering his face with his hand and holding his torch reversed.  Beneath the design is etched :
<p><br><br>"------no smiles for us the God head wears!
<br>His torch inverted &amp; his face in tears!"
<br><br>[From Lord Hervey's 'Reply to Hammond's Verses to Miss Dashwood'. Dodsley's 'Collection of Poems', iv. 73-8.] 
<br>Grego, 'Gillray', p. 27.  15 June 1775
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<br>Etching printed in red ink
1775<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1775-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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