Club night [art original]

Description

Title: Club night [art original]
Creator: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist
Published / Created: [1785]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Five men accompanied by two dogs leisurly sit around a small table in a tavern smoking long-stemmed tobacco pipes and drinking while one of their number squeezes juice and pulp from a fruit into a large punch bowl resting on the table
Description: Title and artist's signature inscribed in the artist's hand below image.
Sheet trimmed to oval shape.
Provenance: Purchased from Colnaghi, June 1971.
Extent: 1 drawing : oval sheet 33 x 38 cm, mounted to 39 x 44 cm
Language: English

Genre: Graphite drawings British 18th century
Ink drawings British 18th century
Wash drawings British 18th century
Watermarks (Paper) J. Whatman
Material: ink and wash with graphite pencil ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Taverns (Inns)
Drinking vessels
Peg legs
Tobacco pipes
Leisure
Dogs
Subjects: Taverns (Inns)
Drinking vessels
Peg legs
Tobacco pipes
Leisure
Dogs
British > 18th century
J. Whatman

Access: Public
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Citation: Henry William Bunbury, Club Night. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.