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Doctors reduced to drinking in a seedy public house: representing the effect of the various Reform bills introduced by Sir James Graham. Wood engraving after J. Leech.

Reference

15640i

A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: two nurses have lunch at a patisserie, the others have a drunken meal at the hospital. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.

Date

1916

Reference

24113i

King George IV having his gouty foot massaged by his mistress Marchioness of Hertford while his wife Queen Caroline listens in the doorway. Coloured etching, ca. 1820.

Reference

11203i

A man surrounded by a feast while professing to have no appetite, his doctor observing how yellow he and his surroundings appear; suggesting the man's jaundiced view of life. Coloured lithograph, 1835.

Date

Published as the Act directs, November 11th 1835

Reference

11200i

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An innkeeper adds water to his wine as his customer, a baker, kisses the landlady. Engraving by J. Lagniet, ca. 1663.

Date

[approximately 1663]

Reference

25927i

People drinking in a gin palace; people consuming alcoholic drinks falling from a pile of barrels of liquor likened to the upas-tree. Line block (?) after G. Cruikshank, 1842.

Date

[between 1800 and 1899]

Reference

26293i

An intoxicated man drinking beer; advertising Blauwe Week against alcohol. Lithograph (?), 1936, after A. van Dobbenburgh, 1935.

Date

[1936]

Reference

663461i

The first verse of a poem entitled, "Rheinweinlied", surrounded by an ornamental design with a large wine glass. Etching, 1842.

Date

1842

Reference

26291i

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

Date

publish'd according to Act of Parliamt. 1 February 1751

Reference

26961i

African people brewing pombe beside a pile of sorghum grain. Wood engraving by J. B. Zwecker.

Reference

25430i