The Jovial Drinker./ A pox on those Fools, who exclaim against wine, / and fly the dear sweets that the Bottle doth bring, / It Heightens the Fancy; the Wit does Refine, / and he that was first drunk was made the first King...
Sutton Nicholls sculp.
Printed and Sold by Samuel Lyne at the Globe in Newgate Street London. [n.d. c.1740.]
Etching & engraving. 18th century watermark; 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Four tears into plate, two taped. left edge soiled.
A scene of a drunken man, wig askew, walking up a hill away from a walled city. On the right a woman supports a vomiting man. A rustic pub has a sign with a flask: the hill and the sign suggest this is the famous inn 'The Flask', in Highgate. Underneath are four verses, with music top right.
[Ref: 42271] £260.00
Printed and Sold by Samuel Lyne at the Globe in Newgate Street London. [n.d. c.1740.]
Etching & engraving. 18th century watermark; 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Four tears into plate, two taped. left edge soiled.
A scene of a drunken man, wig askew, walking up a hill away from a walled city. On the right a woman supports a vomiting man. A rustic pub has a sign with a flask: the hill and the sign suggest this is the famous inn 'The Flask', in Highgate. Underneath are four verses, with music top right.
[Ref: 42271] £260.00