Brandy is the liquor of life [graphic]

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Title: Brandy is the liquor of life [graphic]
Creator: Wilson, James, approximately 1735-approximately 1786, printmaker
Contributor: Teniers, David, 1610-1690, artist.
Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, publisher.
Published / Created: [between 1750 and 1790]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for Robt. Sayer, No. 53 in Fleet Street
Abstract: An elderly man, with balding head and a beard, dressed in a long coat lined with fur, is sitting on a bench next to a table and holding in his hand a conical drinking glass. To the right, a younger woman is sitting behind the table and smiling while looking at her companion. In front of her stands a large pot or a bowl filled with soup. Next to the bowls stands a large ceramic jug. The woman is dressed in the 17th-century Dutch manner. On the wall behind her hangs a fish
Description: Title engraved below image.
Publication date reworked state in the British Museum online catalogue. See Museum number 2010,7081.1674.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. iii; May 1954.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 153 x 115 mm, on sheet 21 x 15 cm
Edition: [State before fish on wall reworked].
Language: English

Access: Public
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