Advice to a Publican, or a Secret Worth Knowing

Thomas Rowlandson|George Murgatroyd Woodward

1810 · Hand-colored etching · Drawings and Prints

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."

Artist

Thomas Rowlandson|George Murgatroyd Woodward

Date

1810

Medium

Hand-colored etching

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959