Title:
He is Discharged from His Employment for Drunkenness: They Pawn Their Clothes to Supply the Bottle, plate II from The Bottle
Creator/Contributor:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British
Date:
1847
Identifier:
1989.21.1383B
Format:
Book
Glyphograph with hand coloring
Notes:
See also an example of the same plate with the addition of a tinted block for shading (1989.21.1382B).
Published for the artist by David Bogue, London.
Catalogue Raisonne: Reid 5000; Douglas 242; Cohn 194
Inscription: Recto, in plate, "Designed and Etched by Geo Cruikshank" at l.r.
Subject:
interior; dwellings; families; poverty; alcoholism