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A lady telling a gripping story to young women and children. Mezzotint by V. Green, 1785, after J. Opie. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
"A lady sitting on the right telling a story to three young women and two children, closely clustered around her, probably in consequence of the sensational character of the tale. ... Same dimensions as last [A school after Opie] to which this is a companion. ... It is probable that some of the figures in these compositions, which are fine specimens of the British school, are portraits of Opie's wife and her relatives." --Chaloner Smith, loc. cit.
Horace Walpole's gothick novel The castle of Otranto was first published in 1764. The phrase "A winter's tale" on the present print may allude to a tale of that type, rather than to Shakespeare's play The winter's tale
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