A fat man, his wig turned upside down, sleeps in his chair, with a punch bowl, bottle and glass on the table by his elbow. Balanced on his enormous stomach is a see-saw, weighted down at the right by a diminutive boy and with a tiny girl seated on the raised end. On the wall behind him is a partly visible picture of someone playing bowls. A dog sleeps on the floor beneath the man's chair
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on sheet 23 x 19 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the Act directs 23.1776 by J. Lockington, Shug Lane, Golden Square, London
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[1800]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 22 Box D175
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An innkeeper uses a bellows to clear heavy dense tobacco smoke from the tavern interior in response to a servant trying to identify his master in the crowd. The innkeeper proclaims "You say you want a little gentlemen in a brown wig. I have really so much smoking business in my parlour that 'till I make use of the bellows I can never distinguish a customer, I believe that is the gentleman you mean." The servant excitedly responds in a Cockney dialect "Yes, Yes, sure enough that be Master, but before he vanishes again, tell him that Missis has sent the street door key."
Description:
Title inscribed in black ink below image in the artist's hand., Signed by the author's in black ink below image., Future imprint statement for print based on this image inscribed in brown ink: London : Pubd. March 1800 by Willm. Holland, No. 11 Cockspur Street., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Smoking, Tobacco pipes, Bellows, Taverns (Inns), and Servants
"God above that made all things,". - In three columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules., Dated from the address; see David Stoker, "Another look at the Dicey-Marshall publications: 1736-1806", The Library, ser. 7, v. 15:2 (June 2014), 111-157., In three columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; imprint at the foot of the third, below a single rule; the columns are separated by columns of type ornaments., Mounted on leaf 46. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
Publisher:
Printed and sold in Aldermary Church-yard, Bow Lane, London
Subject (Topic):
Drinking of alchoholic beverages, Tobacco pipes, Drinking vessels, Wine, Bottles, and Smoking
Title from item., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Morison's Pills; Proprietary medicines.
Five men accompanied by two dogs leisurly sit around a small table in a tavern smoking long-stemmed tobacco pipes and drinking while one of their number squeezes juice and pulp from a fruit into a large punch bowl resting on the table
Description:
Title and artist's signature inscribed in the artist's hand below image. and Sheet trimmed to oval shape.
Title etched below image., Place of publication derived from street address., Date from item., John Gale, known as Dumb Jack, was a deaf mute., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Published July 28, 1813, by G. Smeeton, St. Martin's Lane
Subject (Topic):
Deaf, Smoking, Tobacco pipes, Deaf persons, and People with disabilities
Title from caption below image., Temporary local subject terms Dishes: tankards -- Smoking: tobacco -- Allusion to tythe pig., and Watermark: Strasburg lily.
Half-length portrait in profile to right of a man smoking a long-stemmed tobacco pipe
Alternative Title:
Jolly landlord
Description:
Title from inscription in graphite pencil over image., Title 'Jolly landlord' struck through and replaced with title 'Independent tradesman'., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record and based on other drawings in the series., Probably a copy of an Isaac Cruikshank etching published in: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches ... / by G.M. Woodward., One of a series of 13 drawings by the same artist., and For further information, consult library staff.
Title from item., Date supplied by curator., Place of publication from item., In box in upper right margin: Tregear's Flights of Humor No. 36., Four lines of verse follow title., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
