A ragged, grinning chimney-sweep posed for his portrait in front of a round table in an elegant room. The artist is a young woman in fashionable mob cap, sitting on the opposite side of the table, palette in her left hand and adding finishing touches to her work. A painting above on the wall shows a group of dancing satyrs
Description:
Title engraved below image., One line of quote below title: The proper study of mankind is man., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Trades: chimney sweeps -- Artists: paintress -- Female dress, 1772 -- Artist's implements: palette and brushes -- Table-top easel with box -- Furnishings: carpet -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Travesties: travesty of artists -- Literature: quotation from An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope (1688-1744).
Publisher:
Publish'd May 15th 1772, by W. Humphrey, St. Martins Lane
