A sculpture of a woman and two children looking at her husband, who has fallen down dead drunk. Lithograph, 192-.

Paris (147, Boulevard Saint Germain, Paris VIe) : Ligue nationale contre l'alcoolisme (Paris : Louis de Soye, Imprimeur), [between 1920 and 1929?]

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 85.5 x 62.7 cm

L'alcool est le plus redoubtable ennemi de la famille. Il fait de l'homme une brute, de la femme, une martyre, de l'enfant, un dégénéré. N'en buvons jamais. The sculpture bears the inscription "La Paye", meaning both "payday" (on which money is wasted on drink) and "payback" (the drink's punishment of the drinker). At the foot of the print, names and addresses of five French anti-alcohol organizations

Wellcome Collection 659540i