[Rainbow Tavern in Fleet Street in 1800] [graphic].

Published/Created:

[London]
[s.n.]
[not before 1828]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 15.3 x 25 cm., on sheet 19 x 27 cm.

Notes:

Printmaker and title from Grego.
Publication date from watermark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title on the original drawing (now in private hands): The Wheatshief Eating House, Salisbury Court, Fleet Street. See Bridgeman Art database.
Later reprint in Caricatures / drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. (London, 1836) is titled: Table d'hote.
Restrike of a print listed by Joseph Grego in Rowlandson the caricaturist, London, Chatto and Windus, 1880, v.2, p. 19.
Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. viii.
Watermark: J Whatman 1828.
Title supplied in unknown hand below plate: Rainbeau Tavern in Fleet Street in 1800.

Abstract:

In a tavern diners eat eagerly as they sit crowded around tables each covered in white linen and divided from each other by curtains. A waiter delivers a covered tureen to the table on the right as he crosses pathes with the waitress hurrying to the left with two tankards of beer. The diners' hats hang on pegs around the walls. A chandelier hangs before three casement windows with oval mirrors decorating the walls between. The tavern has been identified as either the Rainbow Tavern or the Wheatsheaf Eating House, both on Fleet Street.

Variant Titles:

Wheatshief Eating House, Salisbury Court, Fleet Street
Wheatsheaf Eating House, Salisbury Court, Fleet Street
Table d'hote

Associated Names:

Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827 [Printmaker]

Topics:

Clocks & watches
Dogs
Eating & drinking
Interiors
Taverns (Inns)
Waiters
Waitresses

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings -- England -- London -- 1828
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1800
Watermarks (Paper) -- J Whatman -- 1828

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

800.00.00.29

Orbis Record:

8212306

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr09633

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10952767

PID:

digcoll:951134