Rowlandson the Caricaturist; a Selection from His Works. Vol. 2 by Joseph Grego

1815. _Sympathy._--This emotion is rendered in the feelings of a stern

functionary, evoked in favour of a lady in Bridewell, who is being led out of the cells by the warder to be flogged, a punishment which, it would seem, had not been abolished in Rowlandson's day. The eye of the coarse and elephantine jailer is gloating over the fair back of the unfortunate criminal, laid bare for the application of the cat.