Leaf 73. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Print of the interior of a restaurant or tavern. Diners are seated at long tables eating and drinking. In the background are cubicles separated by drapes with the diner's hats hanging up along the top of the beams. A clock on the wall marks the time as half past eight. A tall, stooping man ... serves a table of diners on the right as a young woman carries two tankards of ale to a table. In the foreground, two dogs beg for food."--Royal Collection Trust online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Eating house
Description:
Title from text at bottom of image., Attributed to Rowlandson in the Royal Collection Trust online catalogue., Restrike, with title added at bottom of image. For an earlier state lacking title, see Royal Collection Trust, RCIN 810997., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Probably a later, titled state of the print listed as "An eating house" and tentatively dated to 1815. See: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 296., and On leaf 73 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
The interior of a bare and plainly furnished room in a country inn; a number of middle-aged and plainly dressed men stand waiting for dinner to be served. Through a door in the back wall a serving-boy enters with a tureen, followed by a stout woman carrying a turkey, who is followed by a man-servant. A man (left), wearing spurred jack-boots, stands in profile to the left to hang his hat on a peg. He faces a framed notice: 'Club Law". In the centre two men, one wearing top-boots, the other in quasi-military dress, face each other, grinning. A third tries to insinuate himself into the conversation. On the right a stout man stands at a table before a punch-bowl and a sugar-basin: his hands are folded and his eyes closed as if in prayer; between his legs sits a large cat. Beside and behind him a man with a bottle in one hand sniffs at another bottle. An irate man (left) stands at the end of the table, watch in hand. Above the door a picture of a mounted huntsman hangs askew. On the wall are (left) hats and sticks, (right) a map of the world in two hemispheres
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of statements of responsibilty., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on leaf 14 of volume 8 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. 7 April, 1803, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
"The interior of a bare and plainly furnished room in a country inn; a number of middle-aged and plainly dressed men stand waiting for dinner to be served. Through a door in the back wall a serving-boy enters with a tureen, followed by a stout woman carrying a turkey, who is followed by a man-servant. A man (left), wearing spurred jack-boots, stands in profile to the left to hang his hat on a peg. He faces a framed notice: 'Club Law Ist no Journeyman or Apprentice must belong to this society 2nd No Jokes in this society but practical ones, or forfeit 3d. 3d Any Gentleman as gives another Gentleman the lie before strangers to forfeit 6d. 4th Any Gentleman as behaves ungenteel to be fined 3d and turn'd out. 5t All fines to be spent in punch W.C. Secretary.' In the centre two men, one wearing top-boots, the other in quasi-military dress, face each other, grinning. A third, with a pen and ink-horn at his buttonhole, tries to insinuate himself into the conversation. On the right a stout man stands at a table before a punch-bowl and a sugar-basin: his hands are folded and his eyes closed as if in prayer. Beside and behind him a man with a bottle of 'Rum' in one hand sniffs at a bottle of '[Bra]ndy'. An irate man (left) stands at the end of the table, watch in hand. Above the door a picture of a mounted huntsman hangs askew. On the wall are (left) hats and sticks, (right) a map of the world in two hemispheres."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and "Eamus. Quo ducit Gula."--Below title.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 26th, 1788, by W. Dickinson, engraver, No. 158 Bond Street
In a tavern, sailors in uniform are carousing; one dances with a woman in the centre, as another plays a violin on the left in front of diamond-patterned casement windows; others are drinking (mugs in hand) or smoking clay pipes. A couple kiss and embrace in the background. A ship model hangs from the ceiling. A fat dog (or cat?) lies at the feet of the musician
Description:
Title engraved below image., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint and verses. Missing text and sheet dimensions supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 2010,7081.1068., Below title is a song of sixty-nine lines in three columns 'A Sailor's life's a life of woe, ... And swig the flowing Can., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd 21st April 1791 by Robt. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Dance, Eating & drinking, Kissing, Model ships, Musicians, Sailors, Smoking, and Taverns (Inns)
Kings armns in an uproar, King's Arms in an uproar, and Enchanted castle
Description:
Title etched above image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark, and sheet mutilated on top edge with loss of the final letters "g" and "s" in "Kings" in title. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Following imprint: Price sixpence., Six columns of verse below image: I sing the bloody fight & dire alarms, twixt London Tavern and Kings Arms ..., and Watermark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Eating & drinking, Fighting, and Taverns (Inns)
"Heading to (printed) verses ... Mail-coach passengers snatch a hasty meal in a room in the White Horse Cellar (Piccadilly) giving on to the street where the side of the coach is visible. The guard stands in the middle of the room, coach-horn in hand, imperiously addressing a lady who holds a caged parrot. A man on the left drinks from a bowl. A man with his hat tied on warms his back at the fire. The coachman waits outside the door. Over the fireplace is a framed picture of a mail-coach, and on the chimney-piece a model of a horse (the sign of the famous coaching inn)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Caption title from letterpress verse printed below image., Several lines of verse below image: Come, listen to my story, now seated in my glory ..., Plate numbered "512" in upper left corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published 15th Jan. 1821 by Richd. H. Laurie No. 53 Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Hoare, Prince, 1755-1834. and Mathews, Charles, 1776-1835.
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Taverns (Inns), Eating & drinking, Mail wagons, and Coach drivers
Plate lettered in the top center 'G': Reverse copies of details of five men and one woman conversing and drinking, after characters in the upper left corner of Hogarth's first plate in Election entertainment. Each figure is numbered
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Printmaker and date from other plates in this series in the British Museum catalogue., Plates from: Lichtenberg's Göttinger Taschen Kalender., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Subject (Topic):
Eating & drinking, Gin, Intoxication, Politicians, Smoking, and Taverns (Inns)
Plate lettered in the top center 'H': Reverse copies of details six figures from the center of Hogarth's first plate in Election entertainment. Each character is numbered; 1 and 2, two of the musicians (the woman violinist and the bass-viol player); 3, 4, and 5, three of the men sitting at the table conversing and drinking; 6. the portrait on the back wall
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Printmaker and date from British Museum online catalogue., and Plate from: Lichtenberg's Göttinger Taschen Kalender.
Plate lettered in the top center 'I': Reverse copies of details of two men after characters on the center foreground in Hogarth's first plate in Election entertainment. Each figure is numbered; 1. A man pours gin into the cut on another (2) man's bare and wounded head scalp who holds a glass and a club. Above them is a flagover with the inscription "Give us our eleven days."
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Printmaker and date from British Museum online catalogue., and Plates from: Lichtenberg's Göttinger Taschen Kalender.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Subject (Topic):
Eating & drinking, Gin, Political elections, Taverns (Inns), and Wounds & injuries
