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A drunken man is arrested for killing his wife. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1847, after himself.
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A drunken man is arrested for killing his wife. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1847, after himself.

George Cruikshank · 1847

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Lettering: The bottle. plate VII. the husband, in a state of furious drunkenness, kills his wife with the instrument of all their misery

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