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Thread #66904 Message #4177955
Posted By: Lighter
29-Jul-23 - 07:58 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Come Landlord Fill the Flowing Bowl
Subject: RE: Origins: Come Landlord Fill the Flowing Bowl
The London "Daily News" (May 1, 1875) reports, as part of "The Royal Academy exhibition," a painting by H. S. Marks:
"'The Three Jolly Post-Boys,' a bright, merry, vivacious picture of three blue-jacketed post-boys sitting outside an ale-house, and entertaining the servant-maid not a little by their ways and humours. They are the three thus described:
Three jolly post-boys
Sitting at the Dragon
Three jolly post-boys
Sitting at the Dragon,
And they determin-ed,
And they determin-ed,
And they determin-ed
To finish out the flagon.
Let us hope it was not so much after all - among three."
You can buy a second-hand framed sepia print on eBay:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/325269432016
One of the "boys" looks to be about sixty.
"Punch" published a take-off in 1888 featuring three jolly politicians:
https://photos.com/featured/three-jolly-post-boys-1888-artist-print-collector.html