Two Men Smoking and Drinking (Charles and Jack Bannister in Henry IV, Part I)

Sitter Possibly Charles Bannister British

Sitter Possibly John Bannister British

1778–83 (?)

Not on view

A glum elderly man holds his knees and smokes a pipe by a fire place. Next to him is a table filed with bottles, and a jovial young man who holds a glass in one hand and gestures with a pipe in the other. Both figures wear pseudo-17th century dress and sit beneath a clock whose hands indicate 10:30, with Gothic windows at right. The figures may be the London actors Charles Bannister and his son Jack Bannister--the latter a good friend of Rowlandson's.

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Title: Two Men Smoking and Drinking (Charles and Jack Bannister in Henry IV, Part I)
Artist: Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London)
Sitter: Possibly Charles Bannister (British, Newland, Gloucestershire baptised 1741–1804 London)
Sitter: Possibly John Bannister (British, Deptford 1760–1836 London)
Date: 1778–83 (?)
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: Plate: 4 1/4 × 5 13/16 in. (10.8 × 14.8 cm)
Sheet: 6 in. × 7 9/16 in. (15.2 × 19.2 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Object Number: 59.533.1727
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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