The salutation tavern [graphic]

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Title: The salutation tavern [graphic]
Creator: Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, publisher.
Published / Created: publish'd 20th March 1773, New Bond Street No. 134.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: J. Bretherton
Abstract: "Satire contrasting British and Continental customs: a portly Briton bows to an elegant French or Italian man with a long queue apparently in a piazza."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Publisher identified from street address.
One line of text below title, in lower left: Macaroni & other soups hot every day.
Temporary local subject terms: Taverns: Salutation Tavern Macaronies -- Bag wig -- Queue wig.
Matted to 49 x 61 cm.
Manuscript note in contemporary hand below plate mark: Mr. Blunt, Mr. Sharp were never engrav'd.
W.S. Lewis's note on verso of print: Salutation Tavern, Margate St., London Past & Present, iii, 207.
Formerly shelved with the Bunbury Collection.
Provenance: Suckling; July 1956.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 23.1 x 31.7 cm, on sheet 28 x 37 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1773
Etchings England London 1773
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Dandies
Wigs
Bowing
Etiquette
Plazas
Subjects: Dandies
Wigs
Bowing
Etiquette
Plazas
England > 1773
England > London > 1773
Lewis, W. S. (Wilmarth Sheldon), 1895-1979 > Ms. notes

Access: Public
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