A smuggling machine, or, A convenient Cos(au)way for a man in miniature

Print shows Richard Cosway, R.A., standing under the wide hooped petticoat of a tall lady (his wife, Maria), who puts her arms round him. His head and shoulders emerge from the petticoat slightly below the level of her waist; his face is in profile looking upwards. His right hand clutches her cloak, his left, is round her waist. She wears a flat ribbon-trimmed hat, and looks down at him saying, "Tis geting nothing - nay - tisgeting worse than nothing." In the background, on; the wall (right), is a picture of a little man wearing a bag-wig and sword, climbing up a ladder which rests on the breast of a woman. Beneath it is engraved in six lines: "Lowliness is Young Ambitions Ladder ... By which he did assend. Shak. Jul. Caesar."