Plate lettered in the top center 'F': Reverse copies of details from figures from the lower left corner of Hogarth's "Beer Street". Numbered 1: The fat butcher sits laughing (lower right) with a tankard of ale barely visible in his right hand. Standing above and behind him is the cooper or blacksmith wearing a cap and an apron with a pair of tongs at his waist. In his left hand he holds a large tankard of ale with a large head of foam.
Alternative Title:
Beer Street.
Description:
Maggs; December 1963; Acquisitions no.: 963-12-3., Mounted with one other print. To view other title, search by call number: Hogarth 787.00.00.46, Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Plate from: Lichtenberg's Göttinger Taschen Kalender., Printmaker and date from other prints in this series in the British Museum online catalogue., and Title devised by cataloger.
