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- Published / Created:
- [20 November 1805]
- Call Number:
- 805.11.20.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Two men and two women, all tipsy, drink and dance in an ale-house, while beer gushes from a barrel whose spigot has been removed. Through a casement window a woman is seen running off with a joint of mutton on a dish. This John and his drunken wife Joan have thrown from the window."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Plate numbered '412' in the lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., and Six numbered stanzas of verse arranged in three columns below title: John Appleby was a mans name and he liv'd near the sign of the kettle, his wife was call'd Joan Quiet, because she could scold but a little ...
- Publisher:
- Published Novr. 20, 1805, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Barrels, Beer, and Intoxication
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > John Appleby a whimsical old ballad, sung by Mr. Fawcett. [graphic]