Two John Cheere busts in the Bedford Coffee House, in the Piazza Covent Garden.

 

The Rum Grumblers of Great Britain.

Anonymous engraving.

1762.

Included here because of the two busts of Philosophers on Rococo Brackets 

The socles with convex panelled fronts would indicate the busts were made in the workshop of John Cheere

"A broadside satirising Lord Bute's mission to Paris to arrange peace with France, disputed by two patrons of the "Bedford Coffee-House"; with an etching showing the interior of a coffee-house, two gentlemen seated at a table, on the table various newspapers and a tray with a hot chocolate pot, one gentleman pouring liquid from the cup into the saucer; with engraved inscriptions, speech bubbles, and with letterpress title and verses in two columns, and with one vertical segment of type ornament"

Cf. No. 3900 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4.

Coffee houses: Bedford Coffee House -- Architectural details: Palladian windows -- Newspapers: The Briton, The Gazeteer, The Ledger, The Monitor -- Dishes: coffee service.

Mounted to 32 x 45 cm.

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