An Unsteady History of Drunkenness in Pictures

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Between Two Evils,” Puck, 1888

Lloyd

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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

Lloyd

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.