Men Dancing in a Coffee House, an illustration from Tobias Smollett's "The Expedition of Humphry Clinker" (London, 1793), Vol. 1

Q: When was "Men Dancing in a Coffee House, an illustration from Tobias Smollett's "The Expedition of Humphry Clinker" (London, 1793), Vol." created?

This artwork was created February 1, 1793.

Q: Is "Men Dancing in a Coffee House, an illustration from Tobias Smollett's "The Expedition of Humphry Clinker" (London, 1793), Vol." in the public domain?

Yes, Men Dancing in a Coffee House, an illustration from Tobias Smollett's "The Expedition of Humphry Clinker" (London, 1793), Vol. is in the public domain and available for free download under CC0 license.

James Sibbald|Thomas Rowlandson|Charles Grignion, I

February 1, 1793

Men Dancing in a Coffee House, an illustration from Tobias Smollett's "The Expedition of Humphry Clinker" (London, 1793), Vol. 1 by James Sibbald|Thomas Rowlandson|Charles Grignion, I

Medium

Etching and engraving

Dimensions

Sheet: 4 7/16 × 6 7/16 in. (11.3 × 16.4 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959

Accession Number

59.533.562(2)

Tags

SatireRestaurantsMenDancing

Art Historical Context

Step into the lively chaos of 18th-century with *Men Dancing in a Coffee*, a spirited illustration from Tobias Smollett's satirical novel *The Expedition ofry Clinker* (1771). Published in a 1793 London edition (Vol. 1), this print captures a boisterous scene of revelry in a coffee house—one of the era's buzzing social hubs where gentlemen gathered for coffee, conversation, news, and often rowdy entertainment. Smollett's epistolary pokes fun at British society, and this image embodies its humorous critique of everyday follies, showing men gleefully dancing amid the clink of cups and haze of to...

About the Artist

British, Whitlaw, Roxburghshire, Scotland 1747–1803 Edinburgh|British, London 1757–1827 London

Men Dancing in a Coffee House, an illustration from Tobias Smollett's "The Expedition of Humphry Clinker" (London, 1793), Vol. 1

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