Brandy is the liquor of life [graphic]Wilson, James, approximately 1735-approximately 1786, printmaker[between 1750 and 1790]engAn elderly man, with balding head and a beard, dressed in a long coat lined with fur, is sitting on a bench next to a table and holding in his hand a conical drinking glass. To the right, a younger woman is sitting behind the table and smiling while looking at her companion. In front of her stands a large pot or a bowl filled with soup. Next to the bowls stands a large ceramic jug. The woman is dressed in the 17th-century Dutch manner. On the wall behind her hangs a fishTitle engraved below image.Publication date reworked state in the British Museum online catalogue. See Museum number 2010,7081.1674.Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.