Object Number: Mb18

Collection: Fine Art

Object Name: print

Title: The Cock and Bottle Public House, Castle Green

Artist: HUSTON, David

Description: a black and white print on paper, showing: a view of Cock and Bottle Lane with the half-timbered inn of the title to the left; it is believed Alexander Selkirk - the inspriration or Robinson Crusoe - lived at the inn, and met up nearby with Daniel Defoe; the print is inscribed on the plate, "The Cock and Bottle Public-House, with part of Messrs / Ames and Gadd's Warehouses, Castle Green, Bristol" and also "Nor leave his Bottle till the Cock doth crow" (the inn's slogan); Ames, Gadd & Co are described as Dry Salters in the 1824 Bristol trade directory; the artist, David Huston, lived at 3 Castle Green, and is variously described as a teacher of drawing, a painter of miniatures and a portrait painter