Signature: in plate: "RR delin."

Inscription: in plate: "London Published July 11, 1785...by S. Fores No. 3 Piccadilly"; engraved text below title: "Derriere begs leave to submit to the attention of that most indulgent part of the Public the Ladies in general, and more especially those to whom Nature in a slovenly moment has been niggardly in her distribution of certain lovely Endowments, his much improved (aridæ nates) or Dried Bums so justly admired for their happy resemblance to nature. Derriere flatters himself that he stands unrivalled in this fashionable article of female Invention, he having spared neither pains nor expence in procuring every possible information on the subject, to render himself competent to the artfully supplying this necessary appendage of female excellence"

British Museum Satires VI.6874

Diana Donald Followers of Fashion: Graphic Satires from the Georgian Period A National Touring Exhibition organized by the Hayward Gallery, London. 2002, cat. no. 50, 48, ill.

Nadine Orenstein, Constance C. McPhee Infinite Jest: Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Haven and London, 2011, cat. no. 90, 124-125, ill.