Interior view of a coffee house

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John Overton
Interior view of a coffee house
engraving
image: 178 x 282 mm; plate mark: 184 x 287 mm; sheet: 198 x 303 mm
Peel 2648
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Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
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Title devised by cataloger.
A drawing in the collections of the British Museum, with an estimated date of 1690-1700, bears a resemblance to this print, the design being reversed and differing in some individual elements (see Museum number 1931,0613.2).

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Print shows a maid in white lace frontage behind canopied bar and a manservant taking clay pipes from a chest, at right; at center, another servant pours coffee for a customer, and groups of men are shown seated on benches at tables at left, with newspapers and shallow cups; in the background at right, a fire is hung with a large kettle, with a row of coffee pots on the fender; directly above hangs a painting of a couple embracing; on the back wall at left, a mirror, two portraits and rows of hats hang from the wall between two high windows at left. Two dogs wrestle in the foreground.

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