Alcoholism as a monstrous boa constrictor which forces a man to drink from a bottle held in its jaws, and crushes him and his wife and children. Colour lithograph by M. Biro, 19--.

Alcoholism: Death as a skeleton clothed in black comes to seize a family destroyed by alcohol abuse. Colour lithograph by M. Biro, 19--.

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Alcoholism: Death as a skeleton clothed in black comes to seize a family destroyed by alcohol abuse. Colour lithograph by M. Biro, 19--.

Alcoholism as a monstrous boa constrictor which forces a man to drink from a bottle held in its jaws, and crushes him and his wife and children. Colour lithograph by M. Biro, 19--.