Regency dandies drinking after dinner at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, the Strand, London. Drunks fight and give speeches, waiters fall and spill wine. Political Dinner: Tom & Bob taking a lesson on the Constitution and not neglecting their own. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Henry Alken from Real Life in London, or, the Further Rambles and Adventures of Bob Tallyho, Esq. and His Cousin The Hon. Tom Dashall, through the Metropolis, Jones, London 1821. Anonymous imitation of Pierce Egan’s Life in London.

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