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A convicted thief sits in prison with his distraught sister who has been acquitted. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
George CruikshankDate: 1848Reference: 26040i
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A convicted thief stands on trial in a packed law court while his sister weeps. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
George CruikshankDate: 1848Reference: 26030i
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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.
William HogarthDate: publish'd according to Act of Parliamt. 1 February 1751Reference: 26961i
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A convicted thief sits in prison with his distraught sister who has been acquitted. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
George CruikshankDate: 1848Reference: 26031i
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A maniacal man is visited in prison by his children, all ruined through his drinking habit. Reproduction of an etching by G. Cruikshank, 1847, after himself.
George CruikshankDate: 1847Reference: 25972i
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A prisoner lies dying in his bed, his life ruined by earlier frivolity. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
George CruikshankDate: 1848Reference: 26041i
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A convicted thief stands on trial in a packed law court while his sister weeps. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
George CruikshankDate: 1848Reference: 26039i
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Three poor men burdened with barrels of alcohol, being freed by a man from the Temperance Society, while a woman looks on. Wood-engraving by S. Barr, c. 1840, with letterpress.
Date: 1840Reference: 25958i
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The dreadful and ruinous effects of dram drinking / elucidated in Mr. Poynder's affecting, important and interesting evidence before the Committee of the Honourable House of Commons, appointed to investigate into the state of the police of the metropolis ... ; to which is annexed, a letter from Mr. Upton, giving an account of the direful effects of dram-drinking.
John PoynderDate: [1817?]
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Gin, the skeleton spirit and demon of depravity!! A voice from the poison palaces!!! : addressed to the two Houses of the British legislature / by the author of 'The golden rules of life','Every body's friend', 'A book for the whole world', &c. &c.
Date: [1835?]
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The god Bacchus presenting wine to countrymen; left, Icarus being beaten by drunken men. Engraving by J. Matham after D. Vinckeboons.
David VinckboonsDate: [1616]Reference: 32240i
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A prisoner lies dying in his bed, his life ruined by early frivolity. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
George CruikshankDate: 1848Reference: 26033i
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Police raid a lodging house at night and arrest a convicted thief. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
George CruikshankDate: 1848Reference: 26038i
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A hooligan with a bottle and two glasses for a face drops his knife as he is put behind bars. Colour lithograph after N. Charukin, 1966.
Charukin, N.Date: 1966Reference: 541579i
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Police raid a lodging house at night and arrest a convicted thief. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
George CruikshankDate: 1848Reference: 26028i