Inscription: in plate, below image left: 'Drawn by Rowlandson'; center 'QAE GENUS AT A SHEEP-SHEARING.' Date trimmed but plate probably published Feb. 1, 1822 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.