“The Careless nursemaid.” (via Bewick Society)”The careless nursemaid is with her lover in the hedgerow. The child’s distraught mother at the stile sees its hands about to pull the stallion’s tail” Iain Bain, Thomas Bewick Vignettes, edited by Iain Bain, London Scholar Press, 1978. Appendix I p.17
The child is a boy and is thought to be John Bewick.
