<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>The connoiseurs [graphic].</dc:title><dc:date>[1 September 1771]</dc:date><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>Three men examine a curious head, which the man on the left is lifting off a low pedestal. The head has hollow eyesockets, is missing the nose, but has a moustache and wears what purports to be a crown. In the middle of the picture the man who faces us wears a brocaded coat, the star and ribbon of the Order of the Bath[?]. The fat man on our right is a portrait of Francis Grose, antiquarian and draughtsman. He holds a magnifying glass in his right hand and what looks like a small carved animal [possibly an armadillo?] in his left hand over the head</dc:description><dc:description>Title etched below image.</dc:description><dc:description>Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram.</dc:description><dc:description>Printseller's announcement following imprint statement: ... where may be had the greatest variety of comic prints, by several ladies, gentlemen, and the most humourous artists.</dc:description><dc:description>One line of text below title: The head is undetermined, some taking it for Julius Caesar, some for Holifernes, other for an antideluvian [sic] law giver &amp;c.</dc:description><dc:description>Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>