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A drunken scene in a beer shop with a young thief gambling. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
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A drunken scene in a beer shop with a young thief gambling. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.

George Cruikshank · 1848

CC0 — Public Domain
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Lettering: The drunkard's children. plate II. between the fine flaring gin-palace and the low dirty beer-shop, the boy-thief squanders and gambles away his ill-gotten gains

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