Johnny in service to the portrait painter Carmine at his gallery. When alone, Johnny defaces the portraits with chalk and causes a furore. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Thomas Rowlandson from William Combe's The History of Johnny Quae Genus, the Little Foundling of the late Doctor Syntax, Ackermann, London, 1822.

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