print; satirical print

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Object Type: print; satirical print
Museum number: Heal,Portraits.305
Title: Object: Miss Macaroni and her Gallant at a Print-Shop
Description: 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
Producer name: Print made by: John Raphael Smith; Published by: John Bowles
School/style
Production date: 1773
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 350 millimetres; Width: 250 millimetres
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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)
Bibliographic references: D'Oench 1999 / Copper into Gold: Prints by John Raphael Smith (1751-1812) (30); BM Satires / Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (5220); Chaloner Smith 1883 / British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century (undescribed)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: satire; macaroni; printshop
Associated places: Topographic representation of: London
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1960
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: Heal,Portraits.305

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