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Il Milanese   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: George Townley Stubbs

After: Richard Cosway
Title
Il Milanese
Description
English: Portrait (three-quarter length) of a man seated in a chair in profile to the right, addressing a rat which he holds in his right hand, his left fore-finger raised admonishingly, saying "God dammuck the devil a bit nothing at all Signify to me, you be one damm Rat you broil very well". He is thin and old and wears spectacles, but is neatly dressed. His bag-wig is well curled and his shirt is ruffled. His right elbow rests on an oval table on which is an open rat-trap; beside it lies the dead body of a rat, labelled "for Supper". On the table (left) are also a cracked chamber-pot and a wig-block. 25 May 1780
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Depicted people Representation of: Gaetano Manini
Date 1780
date QS:P571,+1780-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 239 millimetres
Width: 199 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.4687
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935)

On the print is written in an old hand, "Nobody Know wat sort a man I be". On the back of one impression is "Marini an Italian painter", but according to the 'Catalogue' of Cosway by F. B. Daniell, this is Magnini a picture-dealer with whom Cosway probably quarrelled, as on the impression in the possession of Sir Philip Currie is written in a contemporary hand, "Cosway had this print etched in ridicule of him". Perhaps Gaetano Manini, painter, of Milan.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-4687
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