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Couple Drinking in a Tavern Garden
Jacob Matham (mentioned on object), 1619 - 1623
This series of four prints is known by the collective title The Consequences of Drunkenness, visually summing up the old Dutch proverb, ‘Cards, stockings and tankards ruin many a man’. In the background here, a bar maid or landlady is keeping a tab of the couple’s drink orders. The motif of the man pouring and drinking simultaneously from two glasses alludes to over-indulgence.
- Artwork typeprint
- Object numberRP-P-OB-27.052
- Dimensionsheight 179 mm x width 195 mm
- Physical characteristicsgravure