Two fat courtesans sit side by side on a settee with the Duke of Norfolk sitting between them holding their hands as he holds a wine glass in one hand while gazing at one of them. Etching by J. Gillray.

[London] : [Thomas McLean], [1830]

1 print : etching ; image 14.5 x 21.5 cm

Le cochon et ses deux petits - or - rich pickings for a noble appetite. vide: Strand Lane; Temple Barr etc etc etc. Lettering at top: (left) 'The Royal Sovereign, was formerly to be seen by all admirers of natural curiosities at six pence pr head, & is reported to weigh near forty-stone', (right) 'Nell H--t--n, weighs rather under thirty stone; & in the absence of the great man, his place is agreeably filled by T------ W-----d, the celebrated collector on the Highway.' The two women and "T------ W-----d, the celebrated collector on the Highway" have not been identified. Grego (loc. cit.) names the latter as Tom Wild

Joseph Grego, The works of James Gillray, the caricaturist; with the history of his life and times, London 1873, pp. 159-160

British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. VI, London 1978, no. 8159

Wellcome Collection 585503i