print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1880,0807.301
- Title
- Object: The Coffehous Mob
- Description
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Satirical frontispiece to 'The Fourth Part of Vulgus Britannicus: or the British Hudibras' showing the interior of a well-appointed coffee-house where journalists and other men are disputing the Sacheverell affair and related events of the day: the title appears on the celing. In the background to left, a barmaid appears behind a counter furnished with cups, glasses and candles; a boy is collecting orders from one side; beside the bar is a roaring open fire over which hangs a kettle and in front of which is a row coffee-pots; there are further coffee-pots and dishes on the mantelpiece and a landscape painting hangs above. Men, two of whom are smoking pipes, sit at two long tables, one beneath a window to right, the other across the foreground on which newspapers and pamphlets are scattered together with a pipe, a candle and coffee bowls. One man, rising from his seat, throws the contents of his bowl in the face of another at the head of the table, to left; another man rises to intervene. A potboy stands in the foreground pouring coffee from a pot into a bowl.1710
Engraving
- Production date
- 1710
- Dimensions
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Height: 355 millimetres (printed area)
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Height: 150 millimetres
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Width: 262 millimetres (printed area)
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Width: 99 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- A copy of the book in the British Library is described by Stephens, press mark 11631.d.
For a later state, see BM Satires 1518.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1999/2000 Oct-Feb, London, Museum of London, London Eats Out
2017-2018 30 Sep-25 Feb, London, V&A, Opera: City
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Fourth Part of Vulgus Britannicus: or the British Hudibras
- Acquisition date
- 1880
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1880,0807.301
