His pictures illustrate the various strata of society; banquets or meetings of officers, guildsmen, local councilmen from mayors to clerks, itinerant players and singers, gentlefolk, fishwives and tavern heroes.
The fishwives got their way.
In the 18th century, fishwives frequently appeared in satires as fearsome scourges of fops and foreigners.
All are variously famous for fishwives, press gangs, ships, boats and sailors, and beautiful scenery.
All we want to do is to exempt fishwives or people who carry fish in baskets for sale, but who cannot carry a weighing machine, too.
If some leaders of nations behave like raucous fishwives, it is all that much more difficult for the family to live happily ever after.
I do not think it was as faulty as his analogy between landlubbers and fishwives in his parish council.
So am but it does not stop one commenting on the analogy of landlubbers and fishwives.
