Tobacco box, 18th century (414:1604-1885)

Oblong tobacco box, enamel on copper, transfer-printed in dark blue. On the lid is a scene in a Dutch inn, with a young man and woman standing with clasped hands beside a table at which a man is seated, smoking and drinking; by a fireplace to the left, at which meat is roasting, are a youth playing bagpipes with a little boy, to the right is a cellarman entering with a tankard and pipes.

Round the sides are prints placed so as to form a continuous landscape, in which are seen, amongst other figures, figures crossing a wooden footbridge (adapted from the engraving by William Woollett of a view at Painshill), a woman showing the way to a man who is watering his horse in a lake, and a gentleman with two ladies angling; the last-named figures are adapted from a detail of a print, also by Woollett, after a drawing by himself, of "A view of the Canal and of the Gothic Tower in the Garden of His Grace the Duke of Argyle, at Whitton, in Middlesex".

On the bottom are roses and a tulip. With a chased gilt metal mount.