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English: Satire on country life. In a churchyard, a soldier attempts to embrace a young woman who pushes him away, her dog crouches on a nearby tomb inscribed 'memento mori' and growls; two village boys tie bones to the string of a kite to which leaves from "Hervy's Meditations among the Tombs" are attached. On the left an old woman coming out of the church pulls at the soldier's shoulder-knot and raises her walking stick; behind her a small girl land two women look on anxiously one older woman raising both her hands and her eyes, the clergyman looks heavenwards and behind him a small old man leaning on a crutch squints through a telescope.On the left two grave diggers grin at the scene; beside them is the gravestone of "Charles Cheatham". Beyond the wall of the churchyard, on the left, a man on horseback laughs at the scene, a copy of "The Buck's Delight"protrudes from his pocket; a black attendant wearing a jockey's cap holds another horse. On the right, behind an obelisk topped by an urn, a man and a woman holding a baby look over the scene from an upstairs window; after John Collet. 1773
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