Advice to a Publican, or a Secret Worth Knowing

Thomas Rowlandson British
After George Murgatroyd Woodward British

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A Publican stands at right visiting a man's office and asks him, "I read Sir an advertisement from your Office that for a Guinea premium you would inform Publicans how they might sell more Porter than usual – there Sir is the Guinea – and now let me know the Secret."; the man at left responds, "I will tell you sir in three words. it is simply this. Fill your Pots."

Advice to a Publican, or a Secret Worth Knowing, Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London), Hand-colored etching

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