Cockney-sportsmen marking game

Gillray, James, 1756-1815 · November 12, 1800

The younger man (rather thin and fashionably dressed, wearing Hessian boots with pointed toes, and a cartouche-box which denotes the volunteer) advances on tiptoe towards the carcass of a horse beset by many crows. He holds his gun reversed, and it goes off peppering the posteriors of his friend (a fat John Bull in top-boots) who is being overturned by his dog while crossing a stile. An old sign-post points left. The surroundings are rural, but on the extreme right is the dome of St. Paul's (BM).