On the left a very thin and would-be fashionable young man stands in profile to the right, smoking a slim cigar. To his right a very broad hackney-coachman puffs at a very long clay pipe. He wears a long greatcoat with capes, over bulging coats and clumsy top-boots, with small top-hat. To his right a sailor in striped shirt and loose white trousers, chewing a quid with a pugnacious sideways look, stands full-face, taking tobacco from his box. On the far right a Frenchman stands full-face, taking a pinch from a snuff-box. A poodle stands beside him. His ear-rings, hat with truncated conical crown, and full white trousers gathered at the ankle indicate his nationality. See British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and State with imprint. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10, no. 14908.
Trade card for Thomas Obbinson from Sleaford Lincolnshire England, seller of teas, coffee, and, presumably, tobacco, depicts an enthroned American Indian smoking a long pipe. To his left side, a small Indian child fills a wooden barrel with leaves, another overturned barrel at his feet. In the background on the right are two sailing ships, one with the rigging up, the other at anchor, sails down
Description:
Title from item. and Below image: Teas coffee &c. wholesale & retail.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Sleaford (Lincolnshire, England)
Subject (Topic):
Coffee industry, Sailing ships, Tea industry, and Tobacco industry
Title from caption below image., Approximate year of publication from British Museum online cat., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J. Whatman.
Publisher:
Pub. by Geo. Hunt, corner of York St. & Bridges St.