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Sir John Barleycorn — Miss Hop — (and their only child) — Master Porter

January 26, 2014 By Jay Brooks

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Here’s a pretty cool historical artifact, from the Lewis Walpole Library at Yale. It’s a print that was created in 1808 by London publisher Thomas Tegg. It’s printed on woven paper, an “etching with stipple” and is hand-colored. The “plate mark is 25 x 35.2 cm.,” on a sheet of paper 27 x 28 cm, and the plate is numbered 151 in the upper righthand corner. When new it sold for one shilling, but I’m guessing it goes for a bit more now. It’s title is “Sir John Barleycorn — Miss Hop — (and their only child) — Master Porter” and is further “dedicated to the publicans of London.” Ah, they had a baby and named it Porter, too. Small world.

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Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers Tagged With: England, History, Science of Brewing



Comments

  1. beerman49 says

    January 28, 2014 at 1:24 am

    That is hella cool – tx for sharing!

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