The City cuckolds & Court horned beasts comparing each other's beauty full of the joys of spring performing in the street

performing in the street

Rector's house in Newington Butts

He worked for the potter Josiah Wedgwood between 1775-1787

Grizell Birkback

The City cuckolds & Court horned beasts comparing each other's beauty full of the joys of spring performing in the street'The City cuckolds & Court horned beasts comparing each other's beauty', 1770. Two groups of courtiers and citizens under a bell resembling the Princess of Wales' petticoat, supported by a flying demon and with a boot (for the Earl of Bute) as a tongue. It is an allusion to City and society scandals, inspired by a speech of George III alluding to a distemper among horned cattle.