Sneaking away in the darkness of the bottom right-hand corner is the President of the Royal Academy, Benjamin West (on the right, with a palette and paint brushes in his hand). West was the first academician to be approached - and taken in - by Miss Provis's pretence. With him are print publishers John Boydell (centre) and Thomas Macklin (left); both were eager to try and make money out of the whole affair. Macklin carries a sack of banknotes over his shoulder. Boydell is also satirised in Shakespeare Sacfrificed.

Detail from: Titianus Redivivus; - or - The Seven-Wise-Men consulting the new Venetian Oracle, 1797. The British Museum

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