Plate lettered in the top center 'F': Reverse copies of details from figures from the lower left corner of Hogarth's "Beer Street". Numbered 1: The fat butcher sits laughing (lower right) with a tankard of ale barely visible in his right hand. Standing above and behind him is the cooper or blacksmith wearing a cap and an apron with a pair of tongs at his waist. In his left hand he holds a large tankard of ale with a large head of foam.
Alternative Title:
Beer Street.
Description:
Maggs; December 1963; Acquisitions no.: 963-12-3., Mounted with one other print. To view other title, search by call number: Hogarth 787.00.00.46, Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Plate from: Lichtenberg's Göttinger Taschen Kalender., Printmaker and date from other prints in this series in the British Museum online catalogue., and Title devised by cataloger.
"Portrait standing whole-length next to an orange tree, left foot raised on the plinth below it, left arm resting on the large urn in which the tree is planted, holding a fruit and gesturing towards it with the other hand, smiling towards the viewer; from a series of thirteen plates after Kneller."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Printmaker and publishers statements taken from alternate state, see British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins, resulting in loss of imprint., and Title and date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.1207.
Publisher:
[J. Cooper],
Subject (Name):
Bliss, G. T.--Mrs.--Ownership., Bliss, Susan Dwight--Donor., Cooper, John, fl. 1726-1737, publisher., and Kneller, Godfrey, Sir, 1646-1723, artist.