Bachelors Fare,1787,Kissing,Relations between the Sexes,England,Beer,Swift

Title: Bachelors fare
Date Created/Published: [London] : Published ... for the proprietor by W. Moore, No. 48 New Bond Street, E. Macklew, No. 9 Haymarket and W. Dickie, No. 195 Strand, 1787 Oct. 16th.
Summary: Print shows a man, seated at a table, embracing and kissing a woman, around the table are seated three women, a fourth, carrying a tankard of beer, enters through a door on the right; on the table are bread and cheese, a visual reference to a quote by Jonathan Swift, 'Bachelors fare; bread and cheese, and kisses.' Two illustrations are on the wall in the background, one of a church, and the other of a swarm of bees around a hive.
Notes:
Title from item.
Attributed to William Dent.
See also: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, no. 4553.
Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).
Subjects:
Kissing--1780-1790.
Relations between the sexes--England--1780-1790.
Cartoons (Commentary)--British--1780-1790.
Etchings--British--1780-1790.
Bookmark /2003674077/
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