Spectators at a print-shop in St. Paul's Church Yard [graphic].

Description

Title: Spectators at a print-shop in St. Paul's Church Yard [graphic].
Creator: Smith, John Raphael, 1752-1812, printmaker
Contributor: Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793, publisher.
Published / Created: published as the act directs [...] [not before 25 June 1774]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for Carington Bowles, at his map & print warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Abstract: "Satire; an extravagantly dressed woman catches a fashionable man by the arm as she points with her fan at a mezzotint droll in a print-shop window; a small dog looks up at her; an old gentleman with a stick standing on the right, stares at the prints and is surprised by a man with a warrant for his arrest."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Attributed to John Raphael Smith by Frankau.
Later state, with plate number added. For an earlier state lacking plate number, see no. 3758 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3.
Date of publication inferred from earlier state with the date "25 June 1774" at end of imprint; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.379.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom edge.
Description based on imperfect impression; date at end of imprint statement has been erased from sheet.
Plate numbered "300" in lower left corner.
Provenance: Previous owner's initials in lower left corner, verso: BWK. Daniel Crouch Rare Books; November 2021.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 35.2 x 26 cm, on sheet 36 x 27 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Edition: [State with plate no.].
Language: English