Two men sit drinking and smoking at a tavern table. Engraving by J. Williams, c. 1792, after a painting attributed to A. Brouwer.

[London] (no. 16, Chiswell Street, Moorfields) : published according to Act of Parliament ... by W. Baynes, 1 February 1792.

1 print : engraving ; image 16.2 x 21.5 cm

The jovial company, A. Brouwer pinxt. J. Williams sculpt. pupil to W.W. Ryland. engrav'd from the original picture in the collection of Sir Joshua Reynolds

Engraved by John Williams (1754-1818), subsequently a well-known satirical writer under the name Anthony Pasquin (Alexander, loc. cit.)

Horst Scholz, Brouwer invenit: druckgraphische Reproduktionen des 17.-19. Jahrhunderts nach Gemälden und Zeichnungen Adriaen Brouwers, Marburg 1985, p. 204, no. 197, Abb. 168 (as after a painting not by Brouwer but possibly from the circle of David Ryckaert)

David Alexander, A biographical dictionary of British and Irish engravers, 1714-1820, London: Paul Mellon Centre, 2021, p. 991

Wellcome Collection 26803i