A good dinner spoil'd by the ridiculous custom of drinking to friends with a full mouth [graphic]

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Title: A good dinner spoil'd by the ridiculous custom of drinking to friends with a full mouth [graphic]
Alternative Title: Good dinner spoiled by the ridiculous custom of drinking to friends with a full mouth
Published / Created: [1775]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Eight people crowd around a dining table, a woman on the right having fainted, perhaps choking, while two gentlemen attempt to revive her. Other diners continue eating as a maid carries in a dripping tray of meat and a dog begs from a woman on the left. Two caricature portraits hang on the background wall
Description: Title from item.
Mounted on paper 37 x 27 cm.
Provenance: Walter Schatzki ; November 1960 ;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 18.3 x 11.1 cm, on sheet 21 x 14 cm
Language: English

Genre: Humor
Satires (Visual works) England 1775
Periodical illustrations
Etchings England 1775
Material: etching ;
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England.
England
Subject (Topic): Dinners and dining
Toasts
Food habits
Social life and customs
Eating & drinking
Dining rooms
Subjects: Dinners and dining > England
Toasts
Food habits
England > Social life and customs > 18th century > Humor
Eating & drinking
Dining rooms
England > 1775

Access: Public
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