print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- Heal,Portraits.305
- Title
- Object: Miss Macaroni and her Gallant at a Print-Shop
- Description
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Four persons gazing at the prints displayed in a print-shop closely resembling though not identical with that in BMSat 3758 (1774) which is evidently by the same artist. A man and woman (left) in macaroni dress stand together, he holds her left hand smiling, and pointing at one of the prints with his right hand. She turns aside smiling behind her fan. Two men (right) stand in conversation; one (right) points out to the other, who is in back view, both hands held up in astonishment, one of the prints in the top row, apparently that of Wesley. A dog befouls the foot of the man facing the shop-window.
Mezzotint
- Production date
- 1773
- Dimensions
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Height: 350 millimetres
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Width: 250 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The shop must be that of John Bowles at 13 Cornhill; for comment see 1902,1011.7988
Heal (notes on mount) drew attention to the similarity with views of the Darly print-shop at 39 Strand ("The Macaroni Print Shop": BM Satires 4701) and Carrington Bowles's shop at No.69, St Paul's Churchyard (BM Satires 3758 and 6352)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1960
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Heal,Portraits.305
