Fortune-hunting

Gillray, James, 1756-1815 · November 20, 1804

A fat elderly man in a hunting-cap has dismounted under an oak tree to have his fortune told by a ragged old gypsy woman, who reads his hand. He listens, surprised and delighted, while another gypsy, kneeling beside him, with a child on her shoulders, picks his pocket. Behind (l.) stands a groom in livery, gaping at the fortune told him by a pretty girl. Behind him a boy leans from a tree to rifle the portmanteau on his horse. The scene is the edge of a wood. In the distance two huntsmen are galloping (BM).