A fat man, his wig turned upside down, sleeps in his chair, with a punch bowl, bottle and glass on the table by his elbow. Balanced on his enormous stomach is a see-saw, weighted down at the right by a diminutive boy and with a tiny girl seated on the...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the Act directs 23.1776 by J. Lockington, Shug Lane, Golden Square, London
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[1800]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 22 Box D175
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An innkeeper uses a bellows to clear heavy dense tobacco smoke from the tavern interior in response to a servant trying to identify his master in the crowd. The innkeeper proclaims "You say you want a little gentlemen in a brown wig. I have really so ...
Description:
Title inscribed in black ink below image in the artist's hand.
Subject (Topic):
Smoking, Tobacco pipes, Bellows, Taverns (Inns), and Servants
"God above that made all things,". - In three columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules.
Publisher:
Printed and sold in Aldermary Church-yard, Bow Lane, London
Subject (Topic):
Drinking of alchoholic beverages, Tobacco pipes, Drinking vessels, Wine, Bottles, and Smoking
Five men accompanied by two dogs leisurly sit around a small table in a tavern smoking long-stemmed tobacco pipes and drinking while one of their number squeezes juice and pulp from a fruit into a large punch bowl resting on the table
Description:
Title and artist's signature inscribed in the artist's hand below image.
