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A drunken man at home with his starving and ruined family. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1847, after himself.
Wellcome Collection

A drunken man at home with his starving and ruined family. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1847, after himself.

http://data.europeana.eu/agent/63272 · 1847

CC0 — Public Domain
Wellcome Collection

Lettering: The bottle. plate V. cold, misery, and want, destroy their youngest child: they console themselves with the bottle

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