Country characters no. 1: Publican, Thomas Rowlandson

The parlour of a country public-house, hung round with pictures on equestrian subjects. The publican is drinking in true old-fashioned landlordlike style with the squire, a Tony Lumkin of a landed proprietor ; mine host wears a red nightcap, and clean white sleeves, apron, and stockings. Tony Lumkin has been trying to palm off an old story on his friend, but the landlord's experience is too much for him.
Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known for his humor, caricatures, satirical drawings, and watercolors, a popular artist in the Regency period in England.