"Copy of scene in the "Old Angle In", an inn with the sign of an angel that gives the proprietor as 'Toms. Bates', and a stop for coaches on the road to London; in foreground a large woman enters a coach, the man to her left helps her in with a hand on her round backside, a man with a protruding belly stands waiting, behind him a boy holds out a hat for tips; to the left a refreshment seller yells out advertising her goods, two drunken guests lean out from a window above with a pipe and a horn, and two figures embrace in the doorway below, the watchdog lies asleep in his kennel on the right; a crowd of election campaigners at the far end of the inn."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Stage-coach
Description:
Title from text below image., Copy in reverse of the Hogarth print with the Paulson title: The stage coach, or, The country inn yard. Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 167., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Cc,2.145., "From an unidentified series of copies after Hogarth's prints. The prints in this series are lettered with title, 'Invented & Painted by Wm. Hogarth' and plate number. For the full list of the plates, see BM Satires 3051"--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Cc,2.153., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and "No. 4"--Upper right corner.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Carriages & coaches, Crowds, Street vendors, and Taverns (Inns)
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd Jany. 10th, 1774.
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 85. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A large Italian vetturino rides a small horse which along with a large horse is pulling a heavy chaise. Inside the chaise sits a tired looking man in a night cap
Alternative Title:
Italian vetturino
Description:
Title supplied from British Museum catalogue., Mounted on page 85 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : etching and drypoint on laid paper ; sheet 18.6 x 29.7 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.