Genre:

Illustration, Drollery

Relevant illustrations:

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Subjects:

Natural History, Regeneration, Gender

    Depicts Paterfamilias standing near a dining table where his daughters, who are 'fond of sketching from nature', are drawing a leg of mutton before it is taken away to be prepared for the next meal. Paterfamilias asks his daughters to pay attention to an 'exquisite ridge of brown fat'.