Masquerading [graphic]Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker[30 August 1811]eng"Masqueraders stand closely grouped. A centre figure is an obese, aged, and capering Punch, playing a guitar. Two women are prominent, both are in profile to the left, and wear small masks which frame their eyes. One holds a wand and a book inscribed 'Magi', the other wears breeches and is very décolletée. Behind her is an ugly coarse-looking man, wearing a domino with a naturalistic mask resembling his own features. A man wears a bag-wig with large horns and carries a placard inscribed 'Horns to Sell'. One figure wears two realistic and complete masks, Janus-like--one that of a handsome woman, the other of an ugly man. The background is an arc of a rotunda, with Ionic pillars framing curtains and decorated with fairy lights."--British Museum online catalogueTitle etched below image."Price one shilling coloured."Plate numbered "84" in upper right corner.Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of plate number from top edge, and sheet mutilated in lower left corner with partial loss of Rowlandson's signature. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum.Mounted on leaf 64 of volume 11 of 14 volumes.