Wellcome Collection
Two medicine vendors, their wives, cats and dogs arguing about the merits of their antiscorbutic pills. Etching by J. Bretherton after H.W. Bunbury, 1774.
Henry William Bunbury
Lettering: Mutual accusation. When once you've told & cant recall a lye Boldly persist in't or your fame will die. Learn this ye wives, with unrelenting claws Or right or wrong, assert your husband's cause. Mr Bunbury del. Js. Bretherton f.
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