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Concept

Temperance

Images

  • Noah, drunk and naked, being covered in a garment by his sons, Shem and Japheth; with a border of naked men holding medallions. Halftone after Michelangelo.
  • Brain and nerve cells in their healthy state and after injury by alcohol. Colour lithograph, ca. 1920.
  • Bovril : those who go down to the sea in ships have perhaps more need for Bovril than any other class of men / [Bovril Limited].
  • Death-rates in pneumonia increase with alcoholic habits.
  • An abstinent gentleman is read to in the park by a boy. Lithograph, c. 1840, after T. Wilson.
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Catalogue

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    The dreadful character of a drunkard, or, The odious and beastly sin of drunkenness described and condemned : shewing the fearful judgments that have befallen notorious drunkards : with brief exhortations to persuade men from that swinish and abominable sin.

    Jones, Andrew | Date: 1681
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    Smoking and drinking / by James Parton.

    Parton, James, 1822-1891. | Date: [1888]
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    An examination of the essays Bacchus and Anti-Bacchus / by John MacLean.

    Maclean, John, 1800-1886. | Date: 1841
    • Ephemera

    Social questions in the orient : great mass meeting (under the auspices of the Anti-Opium Urgency Committee, the Christian Union for the Severance of the Connection of the British Empire with the Opium Trade, and the World's W.C.T.U.) in the Central Hall, Newcastle-0n-Tyne, Friday evening, November 23rd, 1894.

    | Date: 1894
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    Contrasts in drinking of alcoholic beverages: a tavern from 1553 is contrasted with a gin-palace of 1847, temperance with drunkenness, and luxury with poverty. Lithograph by Luke Limner (John Leighton).

    Limner, Luke, 1822-1912. | Date: [1847] | Reference: 35846i
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