Accession number
PML 145850.161
Published
[England : s.n., 1682]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
One of three plates illustrating A warning-piece to all drunkards and health-drinkers, faithfully collected from the works of English and foreign learned authors of good esteem, Mr. Samuel Ward and Mr. Samuel Clark, and others (London : Printed for the author, and are to be sold by Langley Curtis ..., 1682); library has copies of the other two plates from this book (see PML 145850.133 and PML 145850.164).
Print in four panels with individual captions, each featuring a subject illustrating the dangers of the vice of drunkeness; first panel at upper left has caption: One Drunk Vomiting broke a vein after 2 days great pain Dyed.
Mounted as item 161 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
One of three plates illustrating A warning-piece to all drunkards and health-drinkers, faithfully collected from the works of English and foreign learned authors of good esteem, Mr. Samuel Ward and Mr. Samuel Clark, and others (London : Printed for the author, and are to be sold by Langley Curtis ..., 1682); library has copies of the other two plates from this book (see PML 145850.133 and PML 145850.164).
Print in four panels with individual captions, each featuring a subject illustrating the dangers of the vice of drunkeness; first panel at upper left has caption: One Drunk Vomiting broke a vein after 2 days great pain Dyed.
Mounted as item 161 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Description
1 print : engraving ; image: 150 x 99 mm; plate mark: 155 x 104 mm; sheet: 181 x 130 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print in four panels, the first showing a man vomiting; the second showing two men lieing beneath the wheels of a cart, with caption, "4 being Drunk were Slain by Carts."; the third showing a man fallen beneath the feet of a rearing horse, with caption, "One Drunk Rideing over plowed-lands fell and broke his neck."; fourth panel shows a man stabbing a seated woman with a sword, with caption, "a Child that murthered his Mother he being Drunk."
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