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380 ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE SECT. 774<r. A Cottage Room with Four Figures seated round a Tub. Engraved by J. B. Michel, 1779, ^ n the Houghton Gallery. It is uncertain, in the absence of details, whether this print was engraved after any picture now in the Hermitage Palace. 774^. A Cottage Room with Four Figures. They sit round a tub drinking. In the left background a child eats broth. Engraved by A. J. Prestel. 774*. A Cottage Room. Engraved by William Sharp. 775. The Inn Room with Four Figures. Full length. In front, a little to the right, a bearded peasant sits on a chair facing the spectator. He wears a hat, holds a dark bottle in his left hand, and pulls at his knee with the right hand. On the left is a bench. Behind it stands the hostess in a fur cap. She leans with her right hand on the bench, upon which the score is chalked; she holds a large jug in her left hand and converses with a peasant. In front of the bench are a backgammon board, a fiddle, and some clothing. On the bench a man wearing a cap sits with his back to the spectator; he converses with a person who is scarcely visible in the left background. In the right background is a wooden partition with various utensils in front of it. In the foreground is a slipper. The print is dated 1671. Engraved in mezzotint by Jan van Somer (Wessely, 125). 776. An Inn Room with Eight Persons. Full length. To the left of a table in the centre sits a peasant in profile to the right. Raising his hat with his left hand, he holds out a glass in his right to a peasant seated on the right behind the table. In front of this man sit two others; one has a tall glass; the other, seen from the back, has a pipe. Behind this group the host is busy with the reckoning scored on the wall j in front of him sits a smoker in shadow. In the left background an old woman sits by the fire; nearer the front lies a dog. On the right another woman with a jug comes by a wooden stair into the room. With various utensils as accessories. Engraved in mezzotint by Jan van Somer (Wessely, 126). 777. Four Persons at an Inn. In the left foreground a peasant, seen in profile to the right, sits on a chair smoking. To the right, and farther back, another man with a pipe in his left hand sits at a low table, turning to the left. Behind him, farther to the left, stands a woman, apparently holding her nose with her left hand, while she takes a covered jug from the table with the other. To the right again a youth sits by the wall under an open window leading into a dark room. In the extreme right foreground are an overturned bench, a tub, and other objects. In the left background are utensils and so forth. Engraved by Jan de Visscher (W. 55), and in reverse by W. de Broen, 1705; etched in reverse by G. van Schagen.