Three despairing women, one of whom looks disapprovingly at three quacks concocting a mixture; satirizing Britain's economic depletion and distress at the hands of her politicians. Etching by W. Heath, 1830.

William Heath · 1830

Lettering: State quacks - or the desperate condition of the wither'd sisters. "The house is full of quacks - jugglers and plagiaries" - L'Estrange."Thus were they plagu'd and worn with famine" - Milton.