Two Men Smoking and Drinking (Charles and Jack Bannister in Henry IV, Part I)
Thomas Rowlandson British
Possibly Charles Bannister British
Possibly John Bannister British
Not on view
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.
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