[Groups from Hogarth's "Beer Street". F] [graphic].

Description

Title: [Groups from Hogarth's "Beer Street". F] [graphic].
Alternative Title: Beer Street.
Creator: Riepenhausen, Ernst Ludwig, 1765-1840
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Published / Created: [not before 1787]
Publication Place: [Göttingen]
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Abstract: Plate lettered in the top center 'F': Reverse copies of details from figures from the lower left corner of Hogarth's "Beer Street". Numbered 1: The fat butcher sits laughing (lower right) with a tankard of ale barely visible in his right hand. Standing above and behind him is the cooper or blacksmith wearing a cap and an apron with a pair of tongs at his waist. In his left hand he holds a large tankard of ale with a large head of foam.
Description: Maggs; December 1963; Acquisitions no.: 963-12-3.
Mounted with one other print. To view other title, search by call number: Hogarth 787.00.00.46
Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Plate from: Lichtenberg's Göttinger Taschen Kalender.
Printmaker and date from other prints in this series in the British Museum online catalogue.
Title devised by cataloger.
Extent: 1 print : etching ; sheet 10.0 x 5.8 cm
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Etchings -- Germany -- 1787
Satires (Visual works) -- Germany -- 1787
Resource Type: Prints & Photographs
Subject (Name): Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Subject (Topic): Beer
Blacksmiths
Coopers
Eating & drinking
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Pipes (Smoking)

Access: Public
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