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Object Type
print
Museum number
2010,7081.1057
Title
Object:
A Flemish Club
Description
Tavern scene with six men and a woman; one holding a tobacco paper over a bowl, looking at a companion, who smokes, holding a jug, with another standing behind them and a fourth urinating in an alcove on the left; two men and a seated woman by the hearth in the background to right; after Teniers. Mezzotint with some burin
Producer name
Print made by:
Richard Purcell
After:
David Teniers the Younger
Published by:
Robert Sayer
School/style
British
Flemish
Production date
1746-1766
(circa)
Production place
Published in:
London (England)
Materials
paper
Technique
mezzotint
Dimensions
Height:
250 millimetres
Width:
350 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
Apparently a pair to 'A Flemish Concert', 2010,7081.1058 States [recorded in the Lennox-Boyd database] (i) lettered with the title and 'David Teniers Pinx.t // C. Corbutt Fecit. // London Printed for Rob. Sayer Map & Printseller at No. 53 Fleet Street.' (ii) number 407 added [impression with CLB]
Bibliographic references
BM Satires / Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum
(undescribed)
Chaloner Smith 1883 / British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century
(undescribed)
Russell 1926 / English Mezzotint Portraits and their states: Catalogue of Corrections of and Additions to Chaloner Smith's "British Mezzotinto Portraits"
(undescribed)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
tavern/inn
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Hon Christopher Lennox-Boyd
Funder name
With contribution from:
National Heritage Memorial Fund
With contribution from:
Art Fund
With contribution from:
British Museum Friends
With contribution from:
Friends of Prints and Drawings
With contribution from:
Mrs Charles Wrightsman
With contribution from:
Michael Marks Charitable Trust
Acquisition date
2010
Acquisition notes
Acquired with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Friends of the British Museum, the Art Fund, Mrs Charles Wrightsman, the Michael Marks Charitable Trust, and numerous individual donors.
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
2010,7081.1057