A new way to find out a customer!! [art original]
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15814102
Description
- Title
- A new way to find out a customer!! [art original]
- Creator
- Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
- Published / Created
- [1800]
- Publication Place
- England
- Abstract
-
An innkeeper uses a bellows to clear heavy dense tobacco smoke from the tavern interior in response to a servant trying to identify his master in the crowd. The innkeeper proclaims "You say you want a little gentlemen in a brown wig. I have really so much smoking business in my parlour that 'till I make use of the bellows I can never distinguish a customer, I believe that is the gentleman you mean." The servant excitedly responds in a Cockney dialect "Yes, Yes, sure enough that be Master, but before he vanishes again, tell him that Missis has sent the street door key."
- Description
-
Title inscribed in black ink below image in the artist's hand.
Signed by the author's in black ink below image.
Future imprint statement for print based on this image inscribed in brown ink: London : Pubd. March 1800 by Willm. Holland, No. 11 Cockspur Street.
For further information, consult library staff. - Provenance
- Purchased from Abbott & Holder, April 1990.
- Extent
- 1 drawing : sheet 354 x 482 mm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Drawings W87 no. 22 Box D175
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Watercolors British 19th century
Wash drawings British 19th century - Material
- ink and gray wash with watercolor ; and wove paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Topic)
-
Smoking
Tobacco pipes
Bellows
Taverns (Inns)
Servants - Subjects
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Smoking
Tobacco pipes
Bellows
Taverns (Inns)
Servants
British > 19th century
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- G.M. Woodward, A New Way to Find Out a Customer. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 10184722
- Object ID (OID)
- 15814102