Georgian Print: An Ordinary or Lunch at Two O’Clock

A hand coloured mezzotint, ‘An Ordinary ( A Tavern) or Lunch at Two O’Clock’.  A party of citizens at a circular dinner-table are savagely gormandizing. A young buck has drawn the chair from under a stout citizen, who falls to the ground, upsetting his plate and piercing with a fork the tail of a dog (left). Two men, both with heaped-up plates, dispute over the contents of a dish. A woman and little girl sit quietly. The host, standing in the doorway (right), holds up his hand in disgust. Through an open sash-window is seen a circular lawn surrounded by an arcade divided into boxes for tea-drinking.  Published  2 October 1793

Hand-coloured mezzotint, printed for Bowles & Carver, St. Paul’s Churchyard, London, 2 Oct 1793