Inscription: in plate, below image left: 'Drawn by Rowlandson'; center 'QUAE GENUS, IN THE SERVICE OF SR. JEFFERY GOURMAND.' Date trimmed but plate probably published Aug. 1, 1821 by R. Ackermann, 101 Strand. Plate removed from 'The History of Johnny Quae Genus. The Little Foundling of the Late Doctor Syntax: A Poem', by the Author of The Three Tours. Text by William Combe, illustrations by Thomas Rowlandson. London: R. Ackermann, 1822. Description from the Metropolitan Museum, New York.