Judge Thumb or Sticks of a Lawful Size for Family Discipline mb-code 42-35810590 Great Coram Street

Great Coram Street

A letter and portrait of Francis Grose

which was published posthumously

including the Royal Academy and National Portrait Gallery (NPG Ax9207) have carte-de-visite details from this larger image

His body is angled to the right as viewed

Judge Thumb or Sticks of a Lawful Size for Family Discipline mb-code 42-35810590 Great Coram Street'Judge Thumb or Sticks of a Lawful Size for Family Discipline', 1782. A judge says: Here's amusement for married Gentlemen or, a Specific for a Scolding Wife; Who buys of me. A wife is being beaten by her husband with a 'stick of a lawful size': Oh Murder Murder, Oh Cruel Barbarian. Her husband replies: Cruel, ha ha, according to Law, you Jezebel