Miss Macaroni and her Gallant at a Print Shop

Inscriptions

Signed, in plate, lower right margin: J. Smith fecit; signed, in plate, lower left margin: J. Smith pinxt. [t is superscript]; dated, in plate, lower center margin: Publish'd Apr. 2d. [d is superscript] 1773.; titled, in plate, lower center margin: Mifs MACARONI and her GALLANT at a Print-Shop; inscribed, in plate, lower left margin: While Macaroni and his Mistrifs here, / At other Characters, in Picture, sneer,; inscribed, in plate, lower center margin: I [separates the columns of text]; inscribed, in plate, lower right margin: To the vain Couple is but little known, / How much deserving Ridicule their own.; inscribed, in plate, lower center margin: Printed for John Bowles, at No. [o is superscript] 13 in Cornhill.; inscribed, in graphite, on board to which print is affixed: JW Bowle's Print Shop in Cornhill; inscribed, in graphite, on reverse of board to which print is affixed: 429

Published References

British Museum catalogue number 5220

Provenance

A Private Collection of Prints, Oil Paintings, Watercolours, and Drawings, lot 431, Bloomsbury Auctions, London, Thursday, April 19, 2007; sold to present collection, 2007.

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