print;
book-illustration;
pamphlet
- Museum number
- 1856,0308.1320
- Description
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A pamphlet arguing against the consumption of alcohol and promoting teetotallism, illustrating the differences between an alcoholic and an abstainer, a large image to the top of the sheet of an alcoholic leaning against a post in ragged clothes, smoking his pipe and offering a tankard of ale to a clean-cut workman, who recoils in horror, the Crystal Palace beyond;
Woodcut
- Production date
- 1853
- Dimensions
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Height: 446 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 285 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: The Great Exhibition 1851
- Acquisition date
- 1856
- Acquisition notes
- 1856,0308.1296 to 1328 (with the exception of 1306) are all recorded as 'paid for by Mr Carpenter' which implies that he had purchased them on his own account against re-imbursement by the BM.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1856,0308.1320
