The Frenchman at Market. Intended as a Companion to the Frenchman in London, by Collett. Engraved for the Oxford Magazine.
Adam Smith Inv.t et Sculp.t. [1770.] Etching. 115 x 185mm (4½ x 7¼"), with margins. Worm holes in sur-title. Satire on French elegance and Scots miserliness accompanying a letter in the Oxford Magazine, 1770. A butcher punches a French valet who has bumped into him, as a chimney sweep's boy drops a mouse into the Frenchman's bag-wig. A Scot takes the chance to steal a leg of mutton. BM Satires 4476.
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