Is this the respect you show to Old Age ?

H Gibbs (publisher)

Is this the respect you show to Old Age ?

London, H Gibbs, 1825

Stipple engraving

Original hand colouring

255 x 200 mm

£120

Plate 5 from a series of social satires on the working classes. Two young ruffians are standing jeering at an old woman with ragged skirt, carrying a basket on her back. A third young boy , hiding behind a fence, tugs at her skirt.