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Satire on the founding of the Royal Academy: the Turk's Head tavern, Gerrard Street, Soho, with artists anticipating knighthoods and discussing money to be made; near the centre, a head (evidently that of Samuel Johnson) supported by a large volume lettered "Dictionary of hard words". 1768 Etching
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