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The sleepy macaroni ste'--aling a nap / Sam Sharp Eye delt ad vivum, 1772 ; J. Bretherton f.

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James Bretherton
approximately 1730-1806

The sleepy macaroni ste'--aling a nap / Sam Sharp Eye delt ad vivum, 1772 ; J. Bretherton f.

[London] : Published as the Act directs June 1st 1772 by J. Bretherton, No.134, in New Bond Street, [1772
etching
image: 118 x 94 mm; plate mark: 142 x 103 mm; sheet: 147 x 107 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.278
Notes
Possibly after a design by H.W. Bunbury (see BM 4648 for a similar caricature of the 2nd Lord Holland bearing Bunbury's initials)
Previously placed by the British Museum as the first of the third series of caricatures published by M. Darly under the title: Macaronies, Characters, Caricatures &c.; the print was subsequently identified as misfiled by George.
Provenance

From the library of Gordon N. Ray.

Summary

Caricature of a portly man (the 2nd Lord Holland) with coat and sword in profile.

Associated names
Sharp Eye, Sam, designer.
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, designer.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, publisher.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints