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Wine bottles

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  • Five elderly people sit at a table drinking port as one man tells a story. Etching, c. 1795.
  • The risen Christ shares supper with two men at Emmaus. Etching by R. Delaunay after P. Caliari, il Veronese.
  • 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.
  • A man destroys his entire wine stock to the horror of his wife. Wood-engraving by J. Johnston, c. 1864, after G. Cruikshank.
  • A woman and man sit at a table drinking as the man raises the bottle in his right hand. Lithograph, 19th century.
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Catalogue

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

    Castelli. | Date: 1875 | Reference: 26056i
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    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.

    Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811 | Date: 1 March 1808 | Reference: 26292i
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    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.

    Gillray, James, 1756-1815. | Date: [1830] | Reference: 585508i
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    A woman and man sit at a table drinking as the man raises the bottle in his right hand. Lithograph, 19th century.

    | Reference: 26796i
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