Characters who frequented Button's coffee house about the year 1720. [graphic] / Plate 2

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Title: Characters who frequented Button's coffee house about the year 1720. [graphic] / Plate 2
Alternative Title: Martin Folkes. Addison
Creator: Ireland, Samuel, -1800, printmaker
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, attributed name.
Published / Created: [not before 1786]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Two men are seated at a table, the elder (on the left, identified as Martin Folkes) looks through his eyeglasses at a watch, a paper headed 'Votes of the Common' is on the table in front of him. On the right a younger man (identified as Addison) sits across from him, his left arm casually draped over the back of his bench; on the table in front of him is a bowl; he holds a spoon in his right hand, his hat on the seat beside him. After a drawing formerly attributed to Hogarth. See British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from text in image above the two figures.
Series title etched below image; plate number in upper right corner above image.
Provenance: Gift of Joseph Verner Reed (Yale 1926) to the Yale Library, 1958. Portions were transferred to Lewis Walpole Library 1960. For other items from this gift refer to Beinecke Library's GEN MSS 1000.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 15.2 x 20.8 cm
Language: English

Genre: Aquatints England London 1786
Material: aquatint in sepia ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England.
Subject (Name): Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719.
Folkes, Martin, 1690-1754.
Subject (Topic): Coffeehouses
Subjects: Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719
Folkes, Martin, 1690-1754
Coffeehouses > England
England > London > 1786
Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird, Baron, 1780-1826 > Ownership

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