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Inattention—Inattention

John Raphael Smith1791

Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University

Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Middletown, United States

  • Title: Inattention—Inattention
  • Creator: Robert Mitchell Meadows after John Raphael Smith
  • Date Created: 1791
  • Subject Keywords: literature (writings), satire
  • Signatures / Inscriptions: Inscribed: “Painted by J.R. Smith /Read Fox’s Martyrs to Sixteen; / How dull how stupid it must prove! / How it would brighten up her mien, / Would Granny read her those of Love. / P.P. [Peter Pindar]; 1802 by Rudolph Ackermann”
  • Set or Series Title: Inattention and Attention
  • Object Type: Prints, works of art
  • Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
  • Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Friends of the Davison Art Center funds, 1997
  • Materials & Techniques: Stipple engraving printed in brown ink on off-white laid paper
  • Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
  • Edition: Published 28 November 1791 by Smith, King Street, Covent Garden
  • Dimensions: died before 1812
  • Bibliography: Smith cat. no. 255; Ackermann 1802, 9; this print and its companion (1997.16.6), with Pindar’s “whimsical verses,” were discussed in the Monthly Magazine 14 (1 August 1802): 59
  • Associated People: Created by Robert Mitchell Meadows (British (Welsh), died before 1812), After John Raphael Smith (British (English), 1751-1812)
  • Accession Number: 1997.16.5
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University

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