The step-nut (title on object), A dining room with figures around a table. On the right a richly dressed woman and child. Opposite them three soberly dressed gentlemen. A man serves them. On the right in the background a child eating from a pan. On the left a clerk with glasses. Scene from the comedy De Stiefmoêr by Thomas Asselyn from 1684, in which the character Jochem receives the poor family of his second wife. His own child has to lick the pot, while his second wife and her family get the most delicious food, comedy, giving food, eating and drinking, dining room, Jacob Houbraken (mentioned on object), Amsterdam, 1760 - 1780, paper, engraving, h 424 mm × w 304 mm