Early illustration of 17th-century London's coffeehouse culture

17th c. woodcut (c. 1674, public domain)

Here's a woodcut illustration that has been regarded as the 'earliest known image of a coffeehouse'. This piece is from 1674 and was reproduced in William Harrison Ukers' book All About Coffee (1922). What I love about this image is that despite it being from a completely different era, the scene could easily be f…