A companion to lots ... and ..., inscribed in the same way. This is a paraphrase in reverse of Michelangelo's Naasson in one of the lunettes in the Sistine Chapel. For similar paraphrases see those after Michelangelo's Prophet Daniel and the ignudo above the Prophet Jeremias, S. 1171 and 1172. Professor Weinglass suggests a possible reference to the it subject if Manius Curius Dentatus preparing his frugal meal in a dish on the hob. A similar figure seated by a fire, but without the raised leg occurs in Fuseli's painting of a mother and her children by a fire illustrating Milton's Il Penseroso of 1796-9 (S. 915).

For the possible identification of 'L' with London see p. 26