Inscription: in plate, below image left: 'Drawn by Rowlandson'; center 'QUAE GENUS WITH A SPENDTHRIFT. / [date trimmed]' 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.