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Keywords: A smuggling machine or a convenient Cos(au)way for a man in miniature.jpg en A portrait of Richard Cosway R A standing under the wide hooped petticoat of a tall lady his wife Maria who puts her arms round him His head and shoulders emerge from the petticoat slightly below the level of her waist; his face is in profile looking upwards His right hand clutches her cloak his left is round her waist She wears a flat ribbon-trimmed hat and looks down at him saying Tis geting nothing - nay - tisgeting worse than nothing In the background on; the wall right is a picture of a little man wearing a bag-wig and sword climbing up a ladder which rests on the breast of a woman Beneath it is engraved Lowliness is Young Ambitions Ladder Whereto the climber upward turns his Face But when he once attains the upmost round He then unto the Ladder turns his back Looks unto the clouds - scornin sic the base degrees By which he did assend Shak Jul Caesar 1 January 1782 Etching with use of the rocker http //www britishmuseum org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details aspx objectId 1457164 partId 1 Published by Hannah Humphrey 1782 PD-Old 1782 etchings Richard Cosway
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