Brandy is the liquor of life [graphic]
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16192710
Description
- Title
- Brandy is the liquor of life [graphic]
- Creator
- Wilson, James, approximately 1735-approximately 1786, printmaker
- Contributor
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Teniers, David, 1610-1690, artist.
Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, publisher. - Published / Created
- [between 1750 and 1790]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Printed for Robt. Sayer, No. 53 in Fleet Street
- Abstract
-
An elderly man, with balding head and a beard, dressed in a long coat lined with fur, is sitting on a bench next to a table and holding in his hand a conical drinking glass. To the right, a younger woman is sitting behind the table and smiling while looking at her companion. In front of her stands a large pot or a bowl filled with soup. Next to the bowls stands a large ceramic jug. The woman is dressed in the 17th-century Dutch manner. On the wall behind her hangs a fish
- Description
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Title engraved below image.
Publication date reworked state in the British Museum online catalogue. See Museum number 2010,7081.1674.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
No. 50 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries.
Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
1 print : mezzotint on laid paper ; sheet 15.2 x 11.3 cm.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark. - Provenance
- From the H.J. Peters sale, Sotheby's, lot 230; December 1960;
- Extent
- 1 print : plate mark 153 x 115 mm, on sheet 21 x 15 cm
- Edition
- [State before fish on wall reworked].
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 75 C697 770
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Genre prints
Mezzotints England London 1750 - Material
- mezzotint ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Topic)
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Couples
Eating & drinking - Subjects
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Couples
Eating & drinking
England > London > 1750
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 8449099
- Object ID (OID)
- 16192710
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