A girl returns to her family home in the village where her fine clothes and shoes are burnt by her father and she is given a peasant dress to wear. Lithograph by Thos. & Wm. Fairland, 1832, after P.E. Destouches.

"The return to the village. Drawn on stone by Thomas and William Fairland, from a painting by Destouches. A story is beautifully told by this print. An unhappy and erring maiden has returned to the cottage of her father, a stern but sorrowful old man, who is employed in burning the gay trappings his repentant child has just thrown off, to put on once again the humble garments of her more innocent days. It is an exquisite picture, and has been admirably copied in lithography by Messrs. Fairland. We imagine that prints after French artists will become more numerous in England than they have been. British painters of the higher class demand such enormous sums from those who seek to multiply specimens of their genius, that publishers, or engravers who publish on their own account, can scarcely venture to incur the risk of publication. If M. Destouches had been M--, R.A. or M--, R.A. he would doubtless have demanded some two hundred pounds sterling for the 'copy-right' of 'The return to the village.' The matter is of too weighty a nature to be discussed briefly-we may recur to it hereafter."-- New monthly magazine and literary journal, loc. cit.