print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 2010,7081.819
- Title
- Object: Bachelor's Fare - or Bread and Cheese with Kisses
- Description
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Satire on sailors in port: a young sailor in an inn sits at a table laden with bread, cheese, a wine bottle and glass; he pays court to a young woman (presumably a prostitute) into whose hands he pours gold coins; two comrades laugh at the scene through the doorway on the left; a poster on the door lettered 'A Light Heart & a thin Pair of Breeches goes thorough [sic] the World brave Boys'; a picture of two ships on the wall behind is lettered 'The Free Briton closely engag'd with the Charming Sally'; after Collet. 10 November 1777
Hand-coloured mezzotint
- Production date
- 1777
- Dimensions
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Height: 350 millimetres
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Width: 250 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The Lennox-Boyd database notes that according to Hart, there is an engraving of the subject in the Huntington Library, California.
See also the small version in the same direction published by Carington Bowles (2010,7081.1639)
Sale catalogue listings
Carington Bowles, 1784, p. 116 no. 410, listed under works after Collet as a separate category within the Posture Mezzotints, with the following description:
'The following 34 new and elegant humorous Prints, are finely executed from the capital Paintings of that eminent Artist the late John Collet, Esq. in the Possession of Carington Bowles. Each print is 10 inches wide and 14 inches deep. When framed and glazed they make a handsome Appearance and Fashionable Furniture, and are always kept ready finished. Price 2s. plain, or finely coloured from the paintings, 3s. each.'
Carington Bowles, 1790, p. 106 no. 427
There is a reissue with the date erased [1935,0522.1.9]
- Location
- Not on display
- 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
- 2010,7081.819
