The Roast Beef of Old England
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Catalog: C
Code: 297
Author:
Cook Thomas
Subject:
Life scene
Period:
18th Century
Technique:
Engraving
Size:
cm 58x43,5
Code: 297
Size: mm 580 x 435 mm (sheet size) mm 470 x 405 mm (plate mark)
The scene depicts a side of beef being transported from the harbour to an English tavern in the port, while a group of undernourished, ragged French soldiers and a fat friar look on hungrily. Hogarth painted himself in the left corner.
Published by G.G. & J. Robinson,Paternoster Row,Dec.rI.st 1797.
London 1806.
Designed by William Hogarth.
Engraved by Thomas Cook (1774 ca. - Londra 1818)
