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1 print : etching ; platemark 25.4 x 18.6 cm

Six peasants carousing in a barn as a seventh man vomits in the corner. Etching by J. de Visscher, 17th century, after J. Danckerts.

Men drinking, vomiting and collapsing around a tavern table. Etching by J. Le Poutre, 17th century, after himself.

1 print : engraving ; image 16.2 x 21.3 cm

A king sits drinking at a table surrounded by revelling courtiers and a man about to vomit. Engraving after J. Jordaens, c. 1640.

Women brawling in the street at Seven Dials, a place near Covent Garden in London where seven streets meet. A man passing-by is carrying is carrying two racks of beer tankards; one of the racks is labelled "Seven dials"

Two women are arguing in the street at Seven Dials in London watched by a crowd. Etching by George Cruikshank.

The pawnbroker's shop depicted is "S. Gripe pawnbroker", the distillery is "Kilman distillery", a gin shop sign reads "drunk for a penny dead drunk for two pence clean straw for nothing" and a drunkard's paper is headed "the downfall of Mdam. gin"
The area depicted is St. Giles, London

1 print : engraving ; platemark 39 x 32.2 cm

A poor London street strewn with hopeless drunkards and lined with gin shops and a flourishing pawnbroker. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.

Don Quixote I, chapter 3. The setting is the courtyard of an inn. A second muleteer stands in the background

Don Quixote charges with his lance a muleteer who had removed his armour from a well. Etching by J.C. Zeitter, 1831, after H.T. Alken.

1 print : engraving ; platemark 29.6 x 35.6 cm

One man punches another in a drunken tavern brawl, two others shout encouragement. Engraving by J. Levasseur after A. Brouwer.

On 12 July 1861, Major Murray was invited by Mr J. Roberts, a solicitor, to visit his office at Northumberland Chambers, 16 Northumberland Street, Strand, London. Roberts shot Murray, who resisted and struck Roberts with fire tongs and beer bottles. Both men were taken to Charing Cross Hospital nearby (The times, loc. cit.)

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; image 23.6 x 40.3 cm

Major Murray, having been shot by Mr Roberts in the latter's rooms in London, retaliates by attacking Roberts with a beer bottle. Coloured lithograph, 1861.

An episode in the novel Old London Bridge by G.H. Rodwell: an attack by robbers on a cottage on Putney Heath, London, is resisted with gunfire by two of the occupants, Edward Osborne and The Cripple of the Bridge. Etching by A. Ashley, 1848.

1 print : etching ; platemark 21.2 x 31 cm

A woman in Rome is trying to separate two women fighting, one is holding a stick, the other is holding a bucket; a child crying in the background. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1809.

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Six peasants carousing in a barn as a seventh man vomits in the corner. Etching by J. de Visscher, 17th century, after J. Danckerts.

Men drinking, vomiting and collapsing around a tavern table. Etching by J. Le Poutre, 17th century, after himself.

A king sits drinking at a table surrounded by revelling courtiers and a man about to vomit. Engraving after J. Jordaens, c. 1640.

Two women are arguing in the street at Seven Dials in London watched by a crowd. Etching by George Cruikshank.

A poor London street strewn with hopeless drunkards and lined with gin shops and a flourishing pawnbroker. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.

Don Quixote charges with his lance a muleteer who had removed his armour from a well. Etching by J.C. Zeitter, 1831, after H.T. Alken.

One man punches another in a drunken tavern brawl, two others shout encouragement. Engraving by J. Levasseur after A. Brouwer.

Major Murray, having been shot by Mr Roberts in the latter's rooms in London, retaliates by attacking Roberts with a beer bottle. Coloured lithograph, 1861.

An episode in the novel Old London Bridge by G.H. Rodwell: an attack by robbers on a cottage on Putney Heath, London, is resisted with gunfire by two of the occupants, Edward Osborne and The Cripple of the Bridge. Etching by A. Ashley, 1848.

A woman in Rome is trying to separate two women fighting, one is holding a stick, the other is holding a bucket; a child crying in the background. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1809.

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Six peasants carousing in a barn as a seventh man vomits in the corner. Etching by J. de Visscher, 17th century, after J. Danckerts.

Men drinking, vomiting and collapsing around a tavern table. Etching by J. Le Poutre, 17th century, after himself.

A king sits drinking at a table surrounded by revelling courtiers and a man about to vomit. Engraving after J. Jordaens, c. 1640.

Two women are arguing in the street at Seven Dials in London watched by a crowd. Etching by George Cruikshank.

A poor London street strewn with hopeless drunkards and lined with gin shops and a flourishing pawnbroker. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.

Don Quixote charges with his lance a muleteer who had removed his armour from a well. Etching by J.C. Zeitter, 1831, after H.T. Alken.

One man punches another in a drunken tavern brawl, two others shout encouragement. Engraving by J. Levasseur after A. Brouwer.

Major Murray, having been shot by Mr Roberts in the latter's rooms in London, retaliates by attacking Roberts with a beer bottle. Coloured lithograph, 1861.

An episode in the novel Old London Bridge by G.H. Rodwell: an attack by robbers on a cottage on Putney Heath, London, is resisted with gunfire by two of the occupants, Edward Osborne and The Cripple of the Bridge. Etching by A. Ashley, 1848.

A woman in Rome is trying to separate two women fighting, one is holding a stick, the other is holding a bucket; a child crying in the background. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1809.

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