Author: Philip Dawe (c.1750-1791?) after Adriaen van Ostade (1616-1685)
Title: [Antique print, mezzotint] The Waggoner and Fisherman, published 1769.
Description: Two men at a table smoking, one holding a glass of beer, the other standing on the left, waving a pipe; bread on a board on top of a jug in front of them.Lettered with the title, two columns of verse: 'A Bumper! cry's the Waggoner / To those who Liberty prefer! // Right says the Fisherman Huzza! / For this is not a fishing Day.' and 'Ostade pinx.t // Published as the Act directs, A.D. 1769. // Dawe fecit. // [lower left] 5 // Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London.' Mezzotint on paper painted over in oil, trimmed close to the margins; total: 359 x 257 mm; rare, in good conditions, lower right corner restored; Russell (1926) undescribed, Chaloner Smith (1883) undescribed, Thieme Becker VIII, p. 484

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