Barrels Gallery

Kennington, from the Green, 1780, (c1878). Creator: Unknown

Kennington, from the Green, 1780, (c1878). Dray-horse and cart with beer barrels outside a tavern in the village of Kennington, (now part of south London). From Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, And Its Places. The Southern Suburbs, Volume VI, by Edward Walford. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York, c1878]

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The Double Disaster, 1807. Creator: Thomas Rowlandson

The Double Disaster, 1807. ...a rustic swain, whose philanderings have landed him in the midst of the perplexities of a double dilemma. It is seemingly washing day, and the gallant intruder has effected his admission to court the graces of a pretty maiden...The pair have evidently been disturbed at the moment the lady was engaged in drawing a mug of ale for the refreshment of her admirer...the tap of the beer barrel is still left running, and all the maid's solicitude is centered in the position of her swain, who has incautiously taken refuge in the copper. A very disagreeable-looking old beldame is kindling a blazing fire in the stove, while a buxom wench is working away at the pump, which is pouring gallons of water into the unlucky Lothario's place of concealment'. From "The Watercolour Drawings of Thomas Rowlandson from the Albert H. Wiggin Collection in the Boston Public Library" with commentary by Arthur W. Heintzelman. [Watson-Guptill Publications, Inc., New York, 1947]

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Fortifications at Manassas, March 1862. Creators: Barnard & Gibson, George N

Fortifications at Manassas, March 1862. [Scene from the American Civil War, soldiers with barrels filled with earth]. Albumen print, pl. 11 from the album "Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, vol. 1" (1866)

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