Two Men Smoking and Drinking (Charles and Jack Bannister in Henry IV, Part I)

Two Men Smoking and Drinking (Charles and Jack Bannister in Henry IV, Part I)

Thomas Rowlandson

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

A glum elderly man holds his knees and smokes a pipe by a fire place. Next to him is a table filed with bottles, and a jovial young man who holds a glass in one hand and gestures with a pipe in the other. Both figures wear pseudo-17th century dress and sit beneath a clock whose hands indicate 10:30, with Gothic windows at right. The figures may be the London actors Charles Bannister and his son Jack Bannister--the latter a good friend of Rowlandson's.

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Two Men Smoking and Drinking (Charles and Jack Bannister in Henry IV, Part I)Two Men Smoking and Drinking (Charles and Jack Bannister in Henry IV, Part I)Two Men Smoking and Drinking (Charles and Jack Bannister in Henry IV, Part I)Two Men Smoking and Drinking (Charles and Jack Bannister in Henry IV, Part I)Two Men Smoking and Drinking (Charles and Jack Bannister in Henry IV, Part I)

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