Gin, two-penny & tobacco [graphic]

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Title: Gin, two-penny & tobacco [graphic]
Alternative Title: Gin, two-penny and tobacco
Creator: Grinagain, Giles, printmaker, artist
Contributor: Howitt, Samuel, 1765?-1822, publisher.
Published / Created: [25 July 1802]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. July 25, 1802, by S. Howitt, Panton Street, Haymarkt
Abstract: Three women, two standing and one sitting smoking a pipe, converse outside a shop, 'Fine Cordial Gin, two penny & best Virginia'.
Description: Title etched below image.
Giles Grinagain is possibly a pseudonym of Samuel Howitt. See British Museum online catalogue.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
From the Renier Collection; on verso ms. notes in black ink 'Renier' and monogram 'AR'.
Provenance: Jarndyce; November 2017.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 20.8 x 25 cm, on sheet 23 x 28 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1802
Etchings England London 1802
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Baskets
Carts & wagons
Pipes (Smoking)
Stores & shops
Street vendors
Women
Tobacco
Subjects: Baskets
Carts & wagons
Pipes (Smoking)
Stores & shops
Street vendors
Women
Tobacco
England > 1802
England > London > 1802
Renier, Anne, 1910-1988 > Ownership
Renier, Fernand Gabriel, 1905-1988 > Ownership

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