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Inattention—Inattention
John Raphael Smith1791
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Middletown, United States
Details
- 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
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