From Soho

Inscription: in plate, lower right: "P. I de Loutherbourg Fecit"
in plate, lower center: "From Soho"
in plate, below: "London, Printed for R Sayer & J Bennett, No. 53 Fleet Street, as the Act directs, 26 Dec-r 1776"

Vendor: Various European Vendors

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Infinite Jest: Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine," September 13, 2011–March 4, 2012.

Baudicour II.252.30 iii; British Museum Satires 5361 (describes group)

Prosper de Baudicour Le peintre-graveur français continué, ou Catalogue raisonné des estampes gravées par les peintres et les dessinateurs de l'école fran̨caise nés dans le XVIIIe siècle, ouvrage faisant suite au Peintre-graveur français de M. Robert-Dumesnil. vol. 2, Paris, 1859, series, cat. nos. 25-30, pp. 251-52, cat. no. 30, p. 252.

Frederic George Stephens, M. Dorothy George Catalogue of political and personal satires preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum. 11 vols., London, 1870-, mentioned in description of related caricature, no. 5361, p. 233.

Henry Angelo, Thomas Scott-Ellis, 8th Baron Howard de Walden, H. Lavers Smith The Reminiscences of Henry Angelo, with an introduction by Lord de Walden and notes and memoir by H. Lavers Smith. 2 vols., originally published 1830. London, 1904, vol. 1, p. 344: "a lady abbess" (i.e. a brothel keeper), one of four caricatures on one sheet, the others being "From Warwick Lane" (a well-known M.D., the last remaining of the old school), "From the Haymarket" (a signor, a celebrated performer at the Italian Opera House), and "From Oxford" (a fat fellow of Brazen-nose College).

Rüdiger Joppien Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg, R.A., 1740–1812. Ex. cat., Kenwood, London. 1973, "A man with an enormous chin," pen and ink study for "From Wales" a print from the same series; "Caricatures of the English" mentioned in text preceding cat. no. 20, cat. no. 21.

Nadine Orenstein, Constance C. McPhee Infinite Jest: Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine Exh. cat.: September 13, 2011 - March 4, 2012. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Haven and London, 2011, Entry by Constance McPhee, cat. no. 34, pp. 52-53, ill.