A new way to find out a customer!! [art original] / Woodward delin.

Creator:

Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist.

Published/Created:

[England],
[1800]

Physical Description:

1 drawing : ink and gray wash with watercolor on wove paper ; sheet 354 x 482 mm.

Notes:

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.
Purchased from Abbott & Holder, April 1990.

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."

Topics:

Bellows.
Servants.
Smoking.
Taverns (Inns)
Tobacco pipes.

Language:

English

Genre:

Wash drawings--British--19th century.
Watercolors--British--19th century.

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html

Call Number:

Drawings
W87
no. 22
Drawings W87 no. 22 Box D175

Orbis Record:

10184722

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr10998

Citation:

G.M. Woodward, A New Way to Find Out a Customer. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.

OID:

15814102

PID:

digcoll:2783258