Sir Hervey Elwes and his nephew John Elwes: with four episodes in the life of Sir Hervey evincing miserliness. Coloured etching.

John Elwes (originally John Meggott), of Theydon Hall, Essex, and his uncle Sir Hervey Elwes of Stoke College, Stoke by Clare, Suffolk, were famous misers: Oxford dictionary of national biography, s.v.. Elwes, John. The print shows four episodes referring to Sir Hervey Elwes: he is sleeping in aa stable loft, rather than in a bedroom in his house; he pays the surgeon-apothecary for medicine for one of his legs but treats the other leg himself; he rides over a ditch in order to avoid paying a fee to use the road; he goes to bed in the dark to save on heat and light