The 10 Tavern Commandments, as every Landlord should show them to his Guests – Historic Reproduction
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Description
Few images capture their era like this historic image of The 10 Tavern Commandments, as every Landlord should show them to his Guests. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
The 10 Tavern Commandments, as every Landlord should show them to his Guests
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Few pictures on this board borrow the language of scripture as openly as this one. Its title casts ten rules for tavern guests as "Commandments," a playful echo of the Ten Commandments that a landlord might hang on the wall. Prints of this kind were popular in the 18th and early 19th centuries, when taverns were the center of local social, political, and business life and were often the target of both moral warnings and good-natured satire. The joke works because readers would recognize the form at once and could enjoy the gap between solemn wording and everyday drinking manners.
| Original scan | 8,029 × 6,156 px · prints to 27 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 15873u |
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