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- Published / Created:
- [not before 1757]
- Call Number:
- 740.00.00.64+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- One of a series of prints representing various tradesmen made up from tools of their own trade. In this print, the implements making up the figure of the victualler are numbered within image and the key is provided below title. The implemets of the publican's trade include: 1. Molbrough chalk. 2. Pipe, pan, & tobacco. 3. Piss port engrav'd. 4. Butt or barrel. 5. Decanters. 6. Tankard, 7. Candle & candlestick. 8. Bung. 9. Snuffers. 10. Apron. 11. Cock wth. running clout. 12. Silver spoon. 13. Gallon pots. 14. Pails with fining.15. Tap tub. 16. Shovel & poker. Around his neck is a cloth with the words "The London Gazett extraordinary"; on his head label "Sadler Fleet". On the tankards that make up his legs is engraved "Blue potts" and "Bedford Head", and on the pails that are his "feet" "Clavert" and "Parsons". To the left is a shallow barrel with a small tankard with "Penny pot" engraved on it side
- Alternative Title:
- Publican
- Description:
- Title from item. and Later state. Cf. No. 2471 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Bartenders, Bars, Arcimboldesque figures, and Taverns (Inns)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A victualler, or, Publican erected out of his own implements without [the] assistance of Nature. [graphic]