The bar-maid

Description

Title: The bar-maid
Published / Created: [1830s]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: McArthur, Jewry St., Londor [sic]
Description: Title from item. "The bar-maid" is printed twice, as the heading to each section of text.
Letterpress text on the right and lower portions of sheet, with a woodcut illustration of a barmaid pouring a glass of beer in the upper left.
Quoted text to the right of image: "I dare say you think I believe all you say. Ah! it's fine talking. ..."
Lines of verse in two columns below image: Maid of the bar! in whose bright eyes, How many naughty things are lurking! ...
A nearly identical woodcut, accompanied by similar lines of verse, was printed in: Bell's life in London, and sporting chronicle, v.11, no. 371 (12 August 1832).
In contemporary glazed frame.
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Provenance: Jarndyce; July 2025.
Extent: 1 sheet ([1] page) : sheet 12 x 13 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English