Quarterly Duns of Clamorous Tax-Gatherers

The house of a quack practitioner in 'Rotton Row' one Dr Humbug, at the sign of the Golden Pestle of Hippocrates, who advertises 'advice gratis' is the scene of a general muster of the inquisitors and collectors of taxes. Window tax, Income, Property, House, Servants, Horses, Dogs, etc are all to be levied, another watercolour by Rowlandson, The Budget opened or how to raise the wind for the year (1805) see Grego, op.cit. explains these gatherings and shows that taxation was pressing and had in reality been carried beyond a joke.