Lot 222: Whitbread Double Brown Advertising Framed Print

A Whitbread & Co Ltd Double Brown advertising print featuring a centrally positioned anthropomorphic beer bottle character dressed as an 18th-century gentleman. The figure is depicted with a human head wearing a brown and yellow tricorn hat and white cravat, with the bottle forming the torso. It features brown-clad arms, white lace cuffs, a walking cane, red breeches, yellow stockings, and buckled shoes. The bottle bears a label with a horse-head trademark and text reading A FINE BROWN ALE, DOUBLE BROWN, and BREWED & BOTTLED BY WHITBREAD & CO LTD LONDON. The print has a light blue ground with a brown banner at the top reading DOUBLE BROWN and a bottom margin reading BREWED BY WHITBREAD & CO LTD. Housed in a dark-stained stepped wooden frame with a light-coloured inner slip under glass.
22 1/4 inches by 16 1/4 inches.