"The nurse, a respectable-looking woman wearing a cap and apron, stands in profile to the right beside an open coffin placed on trestles; she rests her left hand on a shrouded protuberance. In her right is a glass filled from a bottle of 'Gin' on a table (left). The coffin lid rests against the wall: 'Gabl Paunch Citizen and Alderman of Gobble Ward Obeit [sic] Novr 10th 1810 Ætat 45 Years'. A plate on the ornate coffin is decorated with a bottle, bird, glass, &c. On a chest of drawers are many medicine-bottles all labelled: 'Opening draught Aldn Paunch'. An alderman's gown hangs on the wall. Torn papers lie beside a chair: 'List of City Feasts for the Year 1810' and 'Swan Hop'. [Upping]. A round bath or tub is on the floor (left). The nurse says: "Ah! all the good things of this world wont save us e'faith!! this belly I warrant you has held as many bottles of wine in it's time as ever a Getter in the City, well poor Mr Alderman Paunch! God rest his Soul! he was a good creature! He never grudged the poor what he didn't love himself. Oh those poor pale lips! where's all the Chickens, and all the Capons, and all the Ducks, and all the turkeys, and all the pullets, and all the fowls, and all the game, and all the hams, and all chines, and all the haunches of Venison, and all the turbot, and all the Salmon, and all the fish, and the beef and the turtle, and the marrow-pudding, and the pies, and the Custards, and all the dainties, it has cost the City so much money for, what will he do poor soul if there's no such good things where he is gone too.""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sic transit gloria city and Old nurse's meditation
Description:
Title from caption below image; "mundi" scored through and replaced by "city.", Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on one side.
A city scene with a line of poor men, women, and children lined up from a money lender's shop to the "Temple of Juniper: Best gin". In the background crowds stand at the doorways of the workhouse (right) and the county gaol (left).
Description:
Title from text below image., The prints for Every body's album & caricature magazine were made by C.J. Grant. See British Museum online catalogue., Publisher from dealer's description., Text following date: To be continued once on every fortnight., Text below series title: An original pictorial comical satirical political sentimental caustical whimsical philosophical topographical theatrical theological poetical pastoral rumbostical moral periodical., "Excuse us pray if we do our best, to make as much waste paper as the rest!"--Above image., and "Price 6d plain and 1s colour'd."--Above image, right edge.
Publisher:
J. Kendrick
Subject (Topic):
Almshouses, City & town life, Families, Gin, Jails, Intoxication, Poor persons, Poverty, and Pawnshops
A city scene with a line of poor men, women, and children lined up from a money lender's shop to the "Temple of Juniper: Best gin". In the background crowds stand at the doorways of the workhouse (right) and the county gaol (left).
Description:
Title from text below image., The prints for Every body's album & caricature magazine were made by C.J. Grant. See British Museum online catalogue., Publisher from dealer's description., Text following date: To be continued once on every fortnight., Text below series title: An original pictorial comical satirical political sentimental caustical whimsical philosophical topographical theatrical theological poetical pastoral rumbostical moral periodical., "Excuse us pray if we do our best, to make as much waste paper as the rest!"--Above image., "Price 6d plain and 1s colour'd."--Above image, right edge., and Imperfect, sheet trimmed with loss of text above image: 17.4 x 26.1 cm.
Publisher:
J. Kendrick
Subject (Topic):
Almshouses, City & town life, Families, Gin, Jails, Intoxication, Poor persons, Poverty, and Pawnshops
"Design in an irregular oval border to which four scrolls are attached: ‘To the Work House, To the Mad-House, To the Gaol, The Gibbet'. The shop is ornate and pilastered, lit by a double gas chandelier. The customers, dregs of the town, stand at the counter, within the toothed circle of a huge man-trap on the floor. A drunken man in the remnants of fashionable clothes, takes a glass from the barmaid (right). She is outwardly comely, but her fashionable dress, a smiling mask, and gloves, conceal a skeleton, revealed by a skull which grins from her shoulder, and the bones of a foot and ankle. Beside her is a book: ‘Open Gin Shop The Way to Wealth'. An old hag drinks, another gives gin to an infant in her arms; a little girl drains a glass, and a tiny child clamours at the counter. On the counter stands a small cask on which sits a skeleton: Bacchus with bottle and glass. On the left stands Death (who has set the trap), a skeleton dressed as a London watchman; he holds up an hour-glass in place of lantern; he holds a javelin which points ominously to a trap-door in the boards at his feet. He says: ‘I shall have them all dead drunk presently! They have nearly had their last glass'. On the extreme right behind the barmaid is a doorway framing a ring of little demons dancing round a spirit-still; a skull grins from the transparent retort; below the floor is a dark space: ‘Spirit Vaults'. The casks in the shop are coffins. A huge one is ‘Old Tom' [gin, especially if good and strong]. The others are ‘Deady's Cordial' [Deady was a well-known distiller], ‘Kill Devil' [rum, especially if new], ‘Blue Ruin' [bad gin], ‘Gin & Bitters'. On the wall are two placards: [1] a playbill, ‘Drury Lane Theatre, Road to Ruin [cf. British Museum Satires No. 8073] --Life in London [cf. British Museum Satires No. 14320], Devil to Pay' [cf. British Museum Satires No. 7908]; [2] ‘Wanted a few Members to complete A Burial Society'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Four lines of quoted verse below title: "Now oh dear, how shocking the thought is, They makes the gin from aquafortis; They do it on purpose folks lives to shorten, And tickets it up at two-pence a quartern". New Ballad., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., One of six plates of a series entitled: Scraps and sketches / by George Cruikshank. Part the second. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 11, pages 239-240., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Drunkeness -- Children and Childcare, and 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 27.5 x 36.7 cm.
Publisher:
George Cruikshank
Subject (Topic):
Alcoholism, Death (Personification), Alcoholic beverages, Gin, Intoxication, Children, Demons, Stills (Distilleries), and Coffins
"Design in an irregular oval border to which four scrolls are attached: ‘To the Work House, To the Mad-House, To the Gaol, The Gibbet'. The shop is ornate and pilastered, lit by a double gas chandelier. The customers, dregs of the town, stand at the counter, within the toothed circle of a huge man-trap on the floor. A drunken man in the remnants of fashionable clothes, takes a glass from the barmaid (right). She is outwardly comely, but her fashionable dress, a smiling mask, and gloves, conceal a skeleton, revealed by a skull which grins from her shoulder, and the bones of a foot and ankle. Beside her is a book: ‘Open Gin Shop The Way to Wealth'. An old hag drinks, another gives gin to an infant in her arms; a little girl drains a glass, and a tiny child clamours at the counter. On the counter stands a small cask on which sits a skeleton: Bacchus with bottle and glass. On the left stands Death (who has set the trap), a skeleton dressed as a London watchman; he holds up an hour-glass in place of lantern; he holds a javelin which points ominously to a trap-door in the boards at his feet. He says: ‘I shall have them all dead drunk presently! They have nearly had their last glass'. On the extreme right behind the barmaid is a doorway framing a ring of little demons dancing round a spirit-still; a skull grins from the transparent retort; below the floor is a dark space: ‘Spirit Vaults'. The casks in the shop are coffins. A huge one is ‘Old Tom' [gin, especially if good and strong]. The others are ‘Deady's Cordial' [Deady was a well-known distiller], ‘Kill Devil' [rum, especially if new], ‘Blue Ruin' [bad gin], ‘Gin & Bitters'. On the wall are two placards: [1] a playbill, ‘Drury Lane Theatre, Road to Ruin [cf. British Museum Satires No. 8073] --Life in London [cf. British Museum Satires No. 14320], Devil to Pay' [cf. British Museum Satires No. 7908]; [2] ‘Wanted a few Members to complete A Burial Society'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Four lines of quoted verse below title: "Now oh dear, how shocking the thought is, They makes the gin from aquafortis; They do it on purpose folks lives to shorten, And tickets it up at two-pence a quartern". New Ballad., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., One of six plates of a series entitled: Scraps and sketches / by George Cruikshank. Part the second. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 11, pages 239-240., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Drunkeness -- Children and Childcare
Publisher:
George Cruikshank
Subject (Topic):
Alcoholism, Death (Personification), Alcoholic beverages, Gin, Intoxication, Children, Demons, Stills (Distilleries), and Coffins
Caption title., Authorship attribution and date of publication from Cohn and Reid., Originally published in the March, April, and May 1868 issues of the Band of hope review. For the serial and octavo editions, see: Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank: a catalogue raisonné, 48, 468., Twelve woodcut illustrations, arranged in three rows of four, with verses in letterpress below. Numbered list of 27 "Illustrated penny readings" with prices is printed beneath woodcuts. With decorative border., "Reprinted from the Band of hope review. An illustrated paper for The young. Published monthly. Price one halfpenny"--Beneath title., "Price one penny"--Lower left., "This is printed in a book form, 16 pp., price one penny"--Lower right., and This record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Published by S.W. Partridge & Co., 9, Paternoster Row, London
Subject (Topic):
Temperance, Alcoholism, Public health, Alcoholic beverages, Gin, and Intoxication
Caption title., Authorship attribution and date of publication from Cohn and Reid., Originally published in the March, April, and May 1868 issues of the Band of hope review. For the serial and octavo editions, see: Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank: a catalogue raisonné, 48, 468., Twelve woodcut illustrations, arranged in three rows of four, with verses in letterpress below., "Reprinted from the Band of hope review. An illustrated paper for The young. Published monthly. Price one halfpenny"--Beneath title., "Price one penny"--Lower left, following series statement., and This record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
S.W. Partridge & Co., "British Workman" Office, 9, Paternoster Row, London and Geo. Watson & Co., printers, 28, Charles Street, Farringdon Road
Subject (Topic):
Temperance, Alcoholism, Public health, Alcoholic beverages, Gin, and Intoxication
Gin-shop, Peep into a prison, and Look through the land from north to south
Description:
BEIN BrSides 2011 72: 44 x 30 cm., Caption title., Signed: Z. [i.e. Hannah More]., Date from Spinney., Verse - "Look through the land from north"., Following imprint: "Great Allowance will be made to Shopkeepers and Hawkers.", Price from imprint: "Price an Half-penny, or 2s, 3d, per 100, 1s, 3d, for 50, 9d. for 25.", A Cheap repository tract., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Sold by S. Hazard, (printer to the Cheap Repository for moral and religious tracts) at Bath; by J. Marshall, printer to the Cheap Repositories, No. 17, Queen-street, Cheap-side, and No. 4, Aldermary Church-yard; and R. White, Piccadilly, London; and by all booksellers, newsmen, and hawkers, in town and country
Title written below image., Artist's initials on lower left, and on right, [anchor]--G. Cruikshank fect., Date based on original work created 1833., Pubd. by Thos McLean, 26 Haymarket, Augt. 1st, 1835 [scored through]., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
