A drap of whiskey [graphic].

Description

Title: A drap of whiskey [graphic].
Contributor: Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, artist.
Bowles & Carver, publisher.
Published / Created: [approximately 1793]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Abstract: "A caricatured old man shown half-length to right, sipping from a small glass and his arms around a bottle, resting his elbows on a table, wearing tattered clothes and a hat over a scarf around his head; in an oval; after Dighton; republished state"--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from text below image.
Artist identified as Dighton in the British Museum online catalogue.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of number "404". Missing numbering supplied from impression in the British Museum.
Numbered "404" in lower left corner.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
No. 8 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries.
Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Provenance: From the H.J. Peters sale, Sotheby's, lot 230; December 1960;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 14.6 x 12 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1793
Mezzotints England London 1793
Material: mezzotint ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Drinking vessels
Intoxication
Subjects: Drinking vessels
Intoxication
England > 1793
England > London > 1793

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