An Unsteady History of Drunkenness in Pictures

“Alcohol, Death, and the Devil” by George Cruikshank, c. 1830

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Samuel Clarke warned of a number of violent fates for drunks (eight of them pictured here) in his 1682 book A Warning-piece to All Drunkards and Health-Drinkers

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Frontispiece of Thomas Heywood, Philocothomista, or the Drunkard, Opened, Dissected and Atomized (London: 1635)

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A disturbing detail from William Hogarth’s engraving “Gin Lane,” 1751

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Rush’s “Moral Thermometer” of the effects of different forms of drink, ending with the deadliest, “Pepper in Rum.”

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The trajectory of a drunkard in T. S. Arthur’s Grappling With the Monster

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“Between Two Evils,” Puck, 1888

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  • edited December 2014

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  • edited December 2014

    You forgot to mention what it tells on page 51:

    Spoiler:

    ATTENTION: This man is UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES allowed to drink alcohol or operate a still!

    :D

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  • More likely, "WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE for impersonating a distiller".

    Seems strange they'd have an area 51 in my US passport since I'm not an illegal alien and though the page "appears" to be blank I'd need a golden orb from Xahnthos to know for sure.

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