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1. Le restaurateur [art original].
- Published / Created:
- [1819?]
- Call Number:
- Drawings Un58 no. 36 Box D160
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Scene in a restaurant: a female servant is delivering a dish to a flirtatious diner who is stroking her chin while a male servant excitedly delivers a menu to a second male diner. A massive painting of a grain harvesting scene adorns the wall in the background
- Description:
- Title from caption inscribed in black ink below image., Date from note inscribed in graphite pencil below caption., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Topic):
- Restaurants, Waiters, and Waitresses
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Le restaurateur [art original].
2. Table d'hote [graphic].
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1868?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 73. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Print of the interior of a restaurant or tavern. Diners are seated at long tables eating and drinking. In the background are cubicles separated by drapes with the diner's hats hanging up along the top of the beams. A clock on the wall marks the time as half past eight. A tall, stooping man ... serves a table of diners on the right as a young woman carries two tankards of ale to a table. In the foreground, two dogs beg for food."--Royal Collection Trust online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Eating house
- Description:
- Title from text at bottom of image., Attributed to Rowlandson in the Royal Collection Trust online catalogue., Restrike, with title added at bottom of image. For an earlier state lacking title, see Royal Collection Trust, RCIN 810997., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Probably a later, titled state of the print listed as "An eating house" and tentatively dated to 1815. See: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 296., and On leaf 73 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
- Publisher:
- Field & Tuer
- Subject (Topic):
- Clocks & watches, Dogs, Eating & drinking, Interiors, Waiters, Waitresses, and Taverns (Inns)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Table d'hote [graphic].
3. The duellists [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1770]
- Call Number:
- 770.00.00.182
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A scene in a coffee-house. Two men, one in a queue wig and with a pistol, another in club wig and with a sword, are fighting a duel while three frightened customers are trying to leave and another one cowers behind a settee next to a low table with coffee service on it. Behind another settee, a barmaid holds up her hands in horror. The gentleman with the pistol uses it to parry the sword thrusts of his opponent whose forehead is bleeding. A cat with an arched back and a dog barks look at the scene from the left. The room is decorated with a large mirro and shelves with wine glases, china bowls, and pitchers
- Description:
- Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Coffee cups, Coffeepots, Coffeehouses, Dueling, Fear, Handguns, Interiors, Mirrors, Tableware, Waitresses, and Wigs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The duellists [graphic].
4. [Rainbow Tavern in Fleet Street in 1800] [graphic].
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1828]
- Call Number:
- 800.00.00.29
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In a tavern diners eat eagerly as they sit crowded around tables each covered in white linen and divided from each other by curtains. A waiter delivers a covered tureen to the table on the right as he crosses pathes with the waitress hurrying to the left with two tankards of beer. The diners' hats hang on pegs around the walls. A chandelier hangs before three casement windows with oval mirrors decorating the walls between. The tavern has been identified as either the Rainbow Tavern or the Wheatsheaf Eating House, both on Fleet Street
- Alternative Title:
- Wheatshief Eating House, Salisbury Court, Fleet Street, Wheatsheaf Eating House, Salisbury Court, Fleet Street, and Table d'hote
- Description:
- Printmaker and title from Grego., Publication date from watermark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Title on the original drawing (now in private hands): The Wheatshief Eating House, Salisbury Court, Fleet Street. See Bridgeman Art database., Later reprint in Caricatures / drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. (London, 1836) is titled: Table d'hote., Restrike of a print listed by Joseph Grego in Rowlandson the caricaturist, London, Chatto and Windus, 1880, v.2, p. 19., Watermark: J Whatman 1828., and Title supplied in unknown hand below plate: Rainbeau Tavern in Fleet Street in 1800.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Clocks & watches, Dogs, Eating & drinking, Interiors, Waiters, Waitresses, and Taverns (Inns)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Rainbow Tavern in Fleet Street in 1800] [graphic].
