A family is about to return from their holiday in a London townhouse. Etching by George Cruikshank after S.K.

"The moment of departure. The mother, seated by the fire (left), sadly and affectionately admonishes the younger girl, who weeps at her knee, clasping a doll. The little boy howls, both fists to his eyes. The elder girl, in hat and fur tippet, sits dejectedly on a corded trunk with a melancholy dog at her feet, while the black footman, in unrestrained grief, carries a bandbox and a small arched coffer to the door. The windows, above their green slatted blinds, show that the house is in a London square. The cockatoo mopes, a cat sulks on the hearth-rug. An erection of wax flowers under a glass dome is Victorian in character."--M. Dorothy George in the British Museum catalogue, loc. cit.