See No. 15573. Grey stands on a stool (left), reciting, opposite a handsome and fashionably dressed lady, his wife, who sits with her back to the open door, behind which (right) Thomson eavesdrops. A neglected child (cf. No. 15590) lies on the floor asleep, between her parents. Grey wears a tail-coat with bands, and holds a paper: '"Susanna | "I. and 10th | This lovely damsel'. He repeats: 'And, they, sighed, softly and, deeply for they were, astounded at her, amazing beauty'. Mrs. Grey leans forward, arm extended; in her left hand is a blue stocking, in want of repair; she exclaims: 'Cant you give more emphasis to that passage; it is thus that all the pathos of my compositions is murdered every man but you would feel alive to so animating a subject!!!!' Thomson: 'Bless me how she drills him! it is a sad thing to be under the petticoat goverment [sic] of a blewstocking! I pity her poor offspring!!' Beside him is a cat, stealthily walking out of its bag.  1828
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1828<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1828-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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