"Satire on fashion. A portly middle-aged man wearing riding boots, embroidered waistcoat and powdered wig peers through an eye-glass presumably at pictures offered at an auction the catalogue of which he holds with his riding crop in his left hand.."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Alternative Title:
Macaroni at a sale of pictures
Description:
Title from item., State with series numbers. Cf. No. 4601 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Publication date assigned based on that of the Sayer and Smith edition. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Series numbering "No. 29" in upper left corner and "1" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Connoisseurs -- Quizzing glasses., Watermark: initials G R under mostly cut off watermark., and Matted to 49 x 37 cm.
