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Three men smoking and drinking in a tavern: one man, when drunk, tends to abuse Irish people; the second, who is Irish, tends to attack anyone abusing Irish people; and the third man looks on. Coloured lithograph.

Date

[approximately 1840?]

Reference

26908i

Women eject a drunk and publican from a bar in a crusade against drunkenness. Wood-engraving by A. Joliet, c. 1875, after Castelli.

Date

1875

Reference

26056i

Three men carousing beneath a mulberry tree, with verses of a song comparing the life of humans to the life of a tree. Etching after I. Cruikshank, 1808.

Date

1 March 1808

Reference

26292i

William Pitt the younger stands in the House of Commons facing the opposition benches, who are in corked and labelled bottles, as he uncorks a bottle containing the bloated and scowling face of Sheridan. Etching by J. Gillray.

Date

[1830]

Reference

585508i

A woman and man sit at a table drinking as the man raises the bottle in his right hand. Lithograph, 19th century.

Reference

26796i

A man destroys his entire wine stock to the horror of his wife. Wood-engraving by J. Johnston, c. 1864, after G. Cruikshank.

Date

1864

Reference

26046i

An innkeeper composed of wine bottles and grapes. Engraving, c. 1660 (?).

Date

1660

Reference

25750i

A man sits by a table and examines a full glass of wine that he holds to the light. Mezzotint by H. Dawe, c. 1824, after M. W. Sharp.

Date

1 June 1824

Reference

26891i

Two naked children tasting champagne and tying up bottles. Lithograph by Piecq, c. 1845, after Gosse.

Date

1845

Reference

25744i

Part of

Champagne Montebello

A fat parson with large glass of port in hand is watched by a thin, naked man representing care (worry), and tells him to be gone. Coloured etching after G. Woodward, 1796.

Date

August 1796

Reference

26870i