Accession number
PML 145850.134
Published
[England? : s.n., 17--?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title devised by cataloger.
Mounted as item 134 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Library's copy trimmed to image.
Mounted as item 134 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Library's copy trimmed to image.
Description
1 print : woodcut ; 136 x 114 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a crowd of patrons of various nationalities, including an Irishman, Russian, Englishman, Turkish, West Indian, Chinese, Frenchman, etc., standing around a large urn with multiple spigots tended by a vendor who says "Yessir" as he evidently dispenses a variety of beverages to his customers as they call out diverse requests for "Coffee", "Bohe tea", "Punch", "Claret", "Brandy", "Sack", etc.
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