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Harry Beard Collection

Sheet Music
1807 (published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

A illustrated print and lyrics for The Advantages of Toping, written and sung, with unbounded Applause, by Charles Dibdin.

The coloured print above the lyrics shows a tavern scene in which a group of men are seated around a wooden table. The table is largely bare apart from a simple pair of lighted candlesticks, pipe and bottle of wine. The men are all in an advanced state of drunkeness. They are dressed in the tight knee breeches and pantaloons matched with tight jackets, neckcloths and hessian boots that were a key part of fashionable male dress in the late eighteenth/early nineteenth century.


Object details

Category
Object type
TitleHarry Beard Collection (named collection)
Materials and techniques
Printed ink on paper
Brief description
An illustrated print and lyrics for The Advantages of Toping, published by Laurie&Whittle, 1807, Harry Beard Collection.
Physical description
A colour print of a tavern scene in which a group of men are seated around a wooden table, decorated with a simple pair of lighted candlesticks, pipe and bottle of wine. The men are all in an advanced state of drunkeness. They are dressed in the tight knee breeches and pantaloons that were a key part of fashionable male dress in the late eighteenth/early nineteenth century.
Dimensions
  • Height: 22.8cm
  • Width: 28.4cm
Marks and inscriptions
BM 10956 (Pencil annotatipn. Possibly the original BTMA Number?)
Subject depicted
Literary referenceThe Advantages of Toping
Summary
A illustrated print and lyrics for The Advantages of Toping, written and sung, with unbounded Applause, by Charles Dibdin.

The coloured print above the lyrics shows a tavern scene in which a group of men are seated around a wooden table. The table is largely bare apart from a simple pair of lighted candlesticks, pipe and bottle of wine. The men are all in an advanced state of drunkeness. They are dressed in the tight knee breeches and pantaloons matched with tight jackets, neckcloths and hessian boots that were a key part of fashionable male dress in the late eighteenth/early nineteenth century.
Other number
F118-41 - H Beard Collection Numbering
Collection
Accession number
S.170-1989

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Record createdMarch 23, 2010
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