Refin'd Taste. Eternal Infamy, that Wretch Confound, / Who Planted first this Vice on English Ground. / A Crime that Spite of Sense and Nature reigns. / and Poisons Genial Love & Manhood Stains. Vid. Rod. Random.
R.St.G.M. Inv.t. [Richard St George Mansergh.] [n.d, c.1780.] Etching, 180 x 255mm (7 x 10"). A scene from Tobias Smollett's 'Adventures of Roderick Random': a civilian eyeing up a soldier through a glass. A large beauty spot on the soldier's cheek covers a pockmark from veneral disease. Numbered 'V.2' upper left and '6' upper right. The plate was originally published by Mary Darley, but was later issued by Robert Sayer and Laurie & Whittle. BM Satires: 5173. See Ref: 51697 for coloured image.
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