"Satire: a standing man in a fine dress with the head of a fox."--British Museum online catalogue
Description
Title etched above image. Date of publication from British Museum catalogue. Sheet trimmed to plate mark on three sides. Two lines of verse below image: By little actions striving to be great, and proud to be, and to be thought a cheat. Jenyns. Plate from: The London museum of politics, miscellanies, and literature. London : printed for J. Miller, v. 3 (1771), p. 309. Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Male dress: French inflence, 1771 -- Literature: quotation from The modern fine gentleman by Soame Jenyns, 1704-1787.
Extent
1 print on : plate mark 18 x 12 cm, on sheet 19 x 12 cm
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