Old wheat sheaf in the trap of Venus and Bacchus

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Title: Old wheat sheaf in the trap of Venus and Bacchus
Contributor: Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, publisher.
Published / Created: 9 May 1786.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for Robert Sayer, Chart and Printseller, No. 53 Fleet Street, as the act directs
Abstract: A drunken soldier stretches out in a chair by a table on which sit a punch bowl and empty glass. A young woman in large hat is taking his money and watch
Description: Title engraved below image.
Numbered '192' in lower left corner of plate.
Provenance: Suckling; June 1956;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 35.2 x 26 cm, on sheet 37.3 x 27 cm
Language: English

Genre: Genre prints
Mezzotints England London 1786
Material: mezzotint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Canopy beds
Clothing & dress
Drinking vessels
Floor coverings
Interiors
Soldiers
British
Wallpapers
Draperies
Robberies
Sleeping
Subjects: Canopy beds
Clothing & dress > 1780-1790
Drinking vessels
Floor coverings
Interiors
Soldiers > British
Wallpapers
Draperies
Robberies
Sleeping
England > London > 1786

Access: Public
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