"A country man holding a heavy walking stick stares wide-eyed at a conjuror performing card tricks."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved above image., Plate numbered 'No. 4' in upper right corner., Fourth plate in a series of twenty: Le Brun travested, or, Caricatures of the passions. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, p. 655., Three lines of text below image: This deviation from simple admiration is frequently put in practice at country fairs where some rustic inhabitant of the village gazes with astonishment at the hacnied[?] tricks of a juggler., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject headings: Rustics., and Watermark: Russell & Co. 1799.
Publisher:
Pub. 21 Jan. 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
