L' Enfant trouve: -- a sample of Roman charity!--or--the misfortune of not being born with marks of "the talents"!-- "what! a relation to the broad-bottoms?_ O Sainte Marie! why there's not the least appearance of it!_ therefore, take it away to the Workhouse directly!"

A black servant places a basket with an orphaned infant in it on a round table. Six broad-bottomed figures crowd around it--four wear Catholic ecclesiastical clothing and ornament--and examine the child's bottom in order to determine whether or not it is one of their own. The room is richly decorated with Catholic paraphernalia; crosses hang from chandeliers and an altar to "St. Napoleon" occupies the right corner of the room. Margaret George provides an excellent explanation of this print. George has identified the Broadbottoms as members of the Grenville family. The Marchioness, (center r.), is dressed as an abbess. However, under her simple robe, one can see an elegant gown that reveals her hypocrisy and her elevated class status. To the right of the Marchioness, the Marquis, in military uniform, rises to inspect the squalling baby in the basket. The baby has been sent to the Marchioness; a paper in the basket is inscribed, "Copy of verses to the Marchioness of Broad..." On the left side of the table, the Marquis' brothers Thomas Grenville and Lord Grenville eye the bundle with distaste and distrust. George states: "Parsimony combined with wealth and magnificence is indicated by the guttering altar candles, as well as by the decision to send the child to the workhouse." The head (hair) of the eighth figure from the left has been retouched with opaque white and black ink (gouache? pen?) at a later date. A black servant places a basket with an orphaned infant in it on a round table. Six broad-bottomed figures crowd around it--four wear Catholic ecclesiastical clothing and ornament--and examine the child's bottom in order to determine whether or not it is one of their own. The room is richly decorated with Catholic paraphernalia; crosses hang from chandeliers and an altar to "St. Napoleon" occupies the right corner of the room. Margaret George provides an excellent explanation of this print. George has identified the Broadbottoms as members of the Grenville family. The Marchioness, (center r.), is dressed as an abbess. However, under her simple robe, one can see an elegant gown that reveals her hypocrisy and her elevated class status. To the right of the Marchioness, the Marquis, in military uniform, rises to inspect the squalling baby in the basket. The baby has been sent to the Marchioness; a paper in the basket is inscribed, "Copy of verses to the Marchioness of Broad..." On the left side of the table, the Marquis' brothers Thomas Grenville and Lord Grenville eye the bundle with distaste and distrust. George states: "Parsimony combined with wealth and magnificence is indicated by the guttering altar candles, as well as by the decision to send the child to the workhouse." The head (hair) of the eighth figure from the left has been retouched with opaque white and black ink (gouache? pen?) at a later date. Published by Hannah Humphrey, 1808-05-19. British Museum, BM 10986. According to George, the print references an actual event in which a child in a basket labeled 'To the humane care of the Marchioness of Buckingham' was left on the doorstep of Buckingham's house in Pall Mall. Here, the Grenvilles, who supported Catholic Emancipation, are severely criticized for their religiosity as well as for their rumored support of Napoleon and what George describes as an 'accumulation of sinecures.'