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Vices

Practice, behavior or habit generally considered immoral, depraved, or degrading in the associated society

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  • A lecherous drinker sits with a girl at a barrel table in a dingy tavern. Engraving by P. Canot, c. 1756, after D. Teniers, the younger.
  • A woman being bled by one man while another holds her arm, two dogs lap up her blood; representing France in the grip of Louis XIV and Cardinal Richelieu, while the financiers drain her resources. Engraving.
  • Forms of misbehaviour, drunkeness, debauchery, and violence among Sikhs. Coloured transfer lithograph.
  • A drunken scene in a gin shop with children being given alcohol. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
  • A surgery where all fantasy and follies are purged and good qualities are prescribed. Line engraving by E. de Boulonnois, 16--.
  • A drunken scene in a dancing hall with a sly customer eyeing a girl. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
  • Worthy pastimes of olden times contrasted with vices of the present day. Engraving, c. 1627, after S. Ward.
  • A man harrassed by personifications of greed, guilt, credulity, jealousy, sadness and pride. Engraving by P. Galle, ca 1563.
  • Men worship an ass bearing a religious image; alluding to both Aesop's fable of the ass and idol worship in Arianism and contemporary Catholicism. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.
  • A lecherous old man leans over to a molest a woman who holds a bottle and drinking glass. Mezzotint by J. Smith, c. 1700, after A. van Ostade.
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Alcoholism
Alcoholics
Ethics
Virtues
Alcohol Drinking
Christianity
Hotels
Bars (Drinking establishments)
Taverns (Inns)
Tankards