Distillers looking into their own business.

Thomas Rowlandson

Distillers looking into their own business.

London, Thomas Tegg, Oct 10^th 1811

Etching

Original hand colouring

2540 x 245 mm

£320

Three old men with grotesque and hideously carbuncled faces look into a cask of ‘Double Rectified Spirits’, streaming copiously from nose and mouth. Their heads and shoulders almost fill the design. On the left is a still with a pipe leading into the cask.