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The muses choice: or, the merry fellow. Being a collection of wit and humour, Diversified with an uncommon Variety of Merry Tales; Pointed Satires; Pastoral Eclogues; Humourous Descriptions, Comic Characters in High and Low Life; Songs, English, Welch, Scots and Irish; Rebusses on Drinking Glasses, &c. Epigrams, smart and tart; Epitaphs, odd and curious, &c. &c. All calculated for the Improvement and Diversion of the Young and the Gay, the Sportive and Facetious; and suited to promote Mirth in Good Company, or divert a melancholy Hour. Extracted, partly, from the works of the most celebrated authors, such as Congreve, Pope, Swift, Gay, Prior, &c. and, partly, from originals, taken from private Manuscripts. Jucundus Comes pro vehiculo est.
Date: M.DCC.LIX. [1759]- Books
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The muses choice: or, the merry fellow. Being a collection of wit and humour, Diversified with an uncommon Variety of Merry Tales; Pointed Satires; Pastoral Eclogues; Humourous Descriptions, Comic Characters in High and Low Life; Songs, English, Welch, Scots and Irish; Rebusses on Drinking Glasses, &c. Epigrams, smart and tart; Epitaphs, odd and curious, &c. &c. All calculated for the Improvement and Diversion of the Young and the Gay, the Sportive and Facetious; and suited to promote Mirth in Good Company, or divert a melancholy Hour. Extracted, partly, from the works of the most celebrated authors, such as Congreve, Pope, Swift, Gay, Prior, &c. and, partly, from originals,taken from private Manuscripts.
Date: 1754- Books
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The muses choice: or, the merry fellow. Being a collection of wit and humour, diversified with an uncommon variety of merry tales; Pointed Satire's; Pastoral Eclogues; Humourous Descriptions, Comic Characters in High and Low Life; Songs, English, Welsh, Scots and Irish; Rebusses on Drinking Glasses, &c. Epigrams, smart and tart; Epitaphs, odd and curious, &c. &c. All calculated for the Improvement and Diversion of the Young and the Gay, the Sportive and facetious; and suited to promote Mirth in Good Company, or divert a melancholy Hour. Extracted, partly, from the Works of the most celebrated Authors, such as Congreve, Pope, Swift, Gay, Prior, &c. and, partly, from Originals, taken from private Manuscripts.
Date: M.DCC.LXX. [1770]- Pictures
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Members of the Noble Order of Bucks drinking and smoking. Engraving and etching, c. 1756.
Date: 1756Reference: 26274i- Pictures
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Men and boys at a table drinking as a musician plays the lute. Engraving by A. Reindel, early 19th century, after A. Desenne after B. Manfredi, c. 1600.
Manfredi, Bartolomeo, 1587-1620 or 1621.Reference: 26531i- Pictures
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A dingy tavern with backgammon players and an amorous couple observing a pregnant woman as she drinks. Mezzotint by J. Stolker after J. Steen.
Steen, Jan, 1626-1679.Reference: 26840i- Pictures
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One man sits soundly sleeping as his drunken companion offers him another drink. Etching by T. Sandars, 1773, after J. Collier.
Bobbin, Tim, 1708-1786.Date: June 1773Reference: 26317i- Pictures
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A man, glass in hand, sits at a table with food and drink. Wood-engraving, late 16th century.
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A woman and man sit at a table drinking as the man raises the bottle in his right hand. Lithograph, 19th century.
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A man sits drinking at a table and is entertained by a fiddler as a woman holds his music open. Etching by D. Deuchar, 18th century, after A. van Ostade.
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.Reference: 26538i- Pictures
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A man sits by a table and examines a full glass of wine that he holds to the light. Mezzotint by H. Dawe, c. 1824, after M. W. Sharp.
Sharp, Michael William, -1840.Date: 1 June 1824Reference: 26891i- Pictures
A young man standing at a table raises a glass to give a toast. Mezzotint, ca. 182-.
Date: [between 1820 and 1829?]Reference: 672423i- Pictures
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A man drinks from a glass as a woman holds a jug and raises her hand in the air. Engraving after M. van Cleve.
Cleve, Marten van, 1527-1581?Date: [approximately 1570?]Reference: 27999i- Pictures
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An old woman raises her glass to two men, one with a jug and pipe. Engraving by C. Visscher after A. van Ostade.
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.Date: 1600-1699Reference: 26534i- Pictures
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An old woman raises her glass to two men, one with a jug and pipe. Mezzotint by R. Purcell, late 18th century, after A. Brouwer.
Brouwer, Adriaen, 1605 or 1606-1638.Reference: 26533i- Pictures
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An old woman raises her glass to two men, one with a jug and pipe. Etching by D. Deuchar (?), 18th century, after A. van Ostade (?).
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.Reference: 26535i- Pictures
Men and women carousing in a stately bedroom, with accompanying text on the artist. Engraving by J. L. Delignon, late 18th century, after A. Borel after J. B. Weenix.
Weenix, Jan-Baptist, 1621-approximately 1663.Reference: 26103i- Pictures
Three men smoking and drinking in a tavern: one man, when drunk, tends to abuse Irish people; the second, who is Irish, tends to attack anyone abusing Irish people; and the third man looks on. Coloured lithograph.
Date: [approximately 1840?]Reference: 26908i- Pictures
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A fashionable gentleman sits with his arm round a lady by a tavern table as a girl chalks up drinks on a slate. Lithograph after D. Teniers (?).
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A Dutch country tavern with a drinker being given encouragement, a group by the fire and a serving man chalking up orders. Lithograph by F. Hanfstaengl, 1836, after D. Teniers.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Date: 1836Reference: 27008iPart of: Vorzüglichsten Gemälde der königlichen Galerie in Dresden.- Pictures
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A man sits at a table with playing cards and drink in hand, his wife threatens him as his playing partner makes his departure. Engraving by F. Basan after Dumesnil, junior.
Dumesnil, Pierre-Louis, the younger, 1698-1781.Reference: 26859i- Pictures
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A drunken gentleman proposes to a beautiful woman at her tea table, but is rejected. Lithograph, c. 1840, after T. Wilson.
Wilson, T. C.Date: [1840?]Reference: 25950iPart of: The life of a working man- Pictures
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A woman carrying a cup of chocolate and a glass on a tray. Coloured lithograph by L. Noël after J.E. Liotard.
Liotard, Jean-Etienne, 1702-1789.Date: [1839?]Reference: 30286i- Pictures
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A man sits at home with his family and offers his wife a drink. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1847, after himself.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: 1847Reference: 25973iPart of: The bottle- Pictures
A man sits at home with his family and offers his wife a drink. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1847, after himself.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: 1847Reference: 25960iPart of: The bottle