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

Dining-room_.--In this case the dog has run between the legs of a man bringing in a dish of cutlets, which bestrew the carpet; his downfall has in turn overset another retainer, whose soup tureen has come to grief; the butler, more engaged in watching the calamities of his fellows, has allowed the 'spruce beer' to escape in a shower of froth all over the place. The scene is well worked out; over the door of the dining-room is a picture representing a party of corpulent friars seated round a refectory board. The faces of the party--it is a bachelor-dinner in this instance--express more annoyance than alarm; they are dejected at the prospect of a curtailed repast.