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== Description == '''British Idolatry of the Opera Singer Mingotti.—1756.''' A caricature of an opera singer elevated on a table, with three figures below, musical books and a cat. The figures, costumes, gestures, furniture, books, cat, printed caption and four-line verse match the scrapbook. The journal dates the prototype 1756; this is its 1875 magazine reproduction, not an eighteenth-century impression. The earlier artist and this reproduction engraver are not securely identified here. Fr...
