A young barmaid wearing a frilly dormeuse cap and a neckerchief with a breast knot, attends to a group of male customers gathered around the bar. An elderly military officer wearing a saber leans on the bar spooning custard from a glass, while three young men on his left ogle the barmaid. Two other men occupy the right side of the bar, and two dogs the center foreground, a poodle jumping up at the bar, and a pug urinating on a copy of "The Gazette extraordinary" which lies on the floor. Other newspapers are in the hands of the customers, the "Ledger" and the "Morning post". Bottles, glasses and bowls are arranged on shelves behind the girl
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue, Numbered '384' in lower left of plate., and Publication date erased from this impression.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[3 January 1778]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 137. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A satire on Cambridge. The interior of
Description:
Title etched below image; the letters "n" in "Athens", "inheritress", and "University" are etched backwards., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 137 of: Bunbury album.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not after 3 January 1778]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 135. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A satire on Cambridge. The interior of
Description:
Title from later state., Artist, printmaker, and date of publication from statements of responsibility on later state: T.O. invt. & delt. ; Js. Bretherton f. 3d Jany. 1778., Proof before letters. For a later state with lettering, see no. 5510 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 135 of: Bunbury album.
Title from caption below image., Publication place and date inferred from that of the magazine for which this plate was engraved., Dated by British Museum catalogue: 1 July 1772., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 8, p. 229., and Temporary local subject terms: Newspapers -- Pictures amplifying subject: portrait (of John Wilkes?) -- Literature: reference to Shakespeare's King John, iv.2.