Title:
The Bottle Has Done Its Work--It Has Destroyed the Infant and the Mother, It Has Brought the Son and the Daughter to Vice
and to the Streets, and Has Left the Father a Hopeless Maniac, plate VIII from The Bottle
Creator/Contributor:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British
Date:
1847
Identifier:
1989.21.1383H
Format:
Book
Glyphograph with hand coloring
Notes:
Cruikshank believed total abstinence from alcohol could end poverty and misery. The same man who had caricatured the exploits
of the fashionable and powerful in the Regency period--in works such as "Inconveniences of a Crowded Drawing Room" (1989.21.1553)
and "Gent, No Gent and Regent" (1989.21.273)--devoted the last years of his career to the Temperance movement and reforming
the social ills of Victorian London. [Helmreich, Life in London]
Published for the artist by David Bogue, London.
Catalogue Raisonne: Reid 5000; Douglas 242; Cohn 194
Subject:
psychiatric hospitals; mental disorders; inmates