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Images referencing Affray

18 images from works
  • A poor London street strewn with hopeless drunkards and lined with gin shops and a flourishing pawnbroker. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.
  • One man punches another in a drunken tavern brawl, two others shout encouragement. Engraving by J. Levasseur after A. Brouwer.
  • A drunken brawl in a tavern with men shouting encouragement. Wood engraving by J.-B.C. Carbonneau after A. Brouwer.
  • Two women are arguing in the street at Seven Dials in London watched by a crowd. Etching by George Cruikshank.
  • A drunken street brawl between four young colporteurs and a man, with two accompanying couplets. Etching, 16th century (?).
  • An episode in the novel Old London Bridge by G.H. Rodwell: an attack by robbers on a cottage on Putney Heath, London, is resisted with gunfire by two of the occupants, Edward Osborne and The Cripple of the Bridge. Etching by A. Ashley, 1848.
  • Ladies and gentlemen at Bath brawling over the election of the Master of ceremonies. Engraving, 1769.
  • A centaur fighting a triton on a sea shore, while in the background another centaur is embraced by a nereid. Etching attributed to J. de Ribera.
  • Six peasants carousing in a barn as a seventh man vomits in the corner. Etching by J. de Visscher, 17th century, after J. Danckerts.
  • Men drinking, vomiting and collapsing around a tavern table. Etching by J. Le Poutre, 17th century, after himself.

Works from the collections

19 works

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    Six peasants carousing in a barn as a seventh man vomits in the corner. Etching by J. de Visscher, 17th century, after J. Danckerts.

    Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685. | Reference: 26303i
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    Men drinking, vomiting and collapsing around a tavern table. Etching by J. Le Poutre, 17th century, after himself.

    Le Poutre, Jean-A., active 1680. | Reference: 26311i
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    A king sits drinking at a table surrounded by revelling courtiers and a man about to vomit. Engraving after J. Jordaens, c. 1640.

    Jordaens, Jacob, 1593-1678. | Date: 1640 | Reference: 26305i
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    Two women are arguing in the street at Seven Dials in London watched by a crowd. Etching by George Cruikshank.

    Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878. | Date: 1839 | Reference: 35894i
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    A poor London street strewn with hopeless drunkards and lined with gin shops and a flourishing pawnbroker. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.

    Hogarth, William, 1697-1764. | Date: publish'd according to Act of Parliamt. 1 February 1751 | Reference: 26961i

Related topics

Alcoholics
Alcoholism
Alcohol Drinking
Alcoholism - Psychological aspects
Hotels
Bars (Drinking establishments)
Taverns (Inns)
Death
City of Westminster
Sick

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