Title engraved above image., Plate numbered 'No. 9' in upper right corner., Three lines of text below image: Laughter is one of the most pleasing of the passions & is with difficulty accounted for as risibility is frequently excited from the most simple causes. As is the case with the countryman & his cat., Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, p. 655., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Countryman -- Pets: cat in clothes -- Passions -- Laughter., and Printseller's stamp in lower right corner of design: RA.
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Pub. 21 Jan. 1800 at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand