The Farmer's Return from London

It was originally written for the charitable benefit of Hannah Pritchard and was first performed on 20 March 1762 at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane.

[3] The interlude was sometimes included at the end of an evening's performance; on 25 January 1763 it followed The Two Gentlemen of Verona and preceded a comic dance called 'The Flemish Feast'.

[1] Farmer John regales his family with stories of the sights of London, including the famous Cock Lane ghost fraud.

The depiction of the farmer's relation of his visit to London was the first theatrical painting by Johan Zoffany, whose future patron Garrick became.

In 2014, Zoffany's painting was allocated to the Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle in lieu of inheritance tax.