[Charity in the cellar] [graphic].

Description

Title: [Charity in the cellar] [graphic].
Creator: Cheesman, Thomas, 1760- printmaker
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Walker, Elizabeth, active 1789-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 October 1793]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd Oct. 1, 1793, by E. Walker, No. 7 Cornhill
Abstract: "A drunken party; four men drinking heavily in a tavern, one with a cloth over his head, the others gathered round him, a fifth laid out asleep on a table at left; on a barrel at right a statue group of Charity, echoing the poses of the main figures; numerous empty bottles in the foreground; after the painting by Hogarth"--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title supplied by cataloger, based on Hogarth's painting.
Lettered on a coal scuttle at bottom left: 'SEG 3'.
Printmaker and artist from British Museum online catalogue. See BM Registration number: 1882,0610.54.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark on lower edge.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 392 x 432 mm, on sheet 400 x 456 mm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1793
Stipple engravings England London 1793
Etchings England London 1793
Material: stipple and etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Intoxication
Taverns (Inns)
Subjects: Intoxication
Taverns (Inns) > 18th century
England > 1793
England > London > 1793

Access: Public
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