The smoaking club [graphic]

Description

Title: The smoaking club [graphic]
Alternative Title: Smoking club
Contributor: Teniers, David, 1610-1690.
Published / Created: [1814?]
Publication Place: England
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Presumably a parody of David Tenier the Younger's print "A Flemish Club". In this version, also a tavern setting, four monkeys dressed in shirts and vests and two wearing plumed hats, sit around a bowl, one looking back at a companion who holds up a glass, one who smokes as he holds a tankard; the one holding a knife looks with surprise at the bowl of food
Description: Title etched below image.
Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Animals smoking.
Mounted to 21 x 25 cm.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xv.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 20.3 x 24.7 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1814
Etchings England 1814
Material: engraving and etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Animals in human situations
Eating & drinking
Monkeys
Smoking
Pipes (Smoking)
Subjects: Animals in human situations
Eating & drinking
Monkeys
Smoking
Pipes (Smoking)
England > 1814

Access: Public
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