Accession number
PML 145850.164
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 145850.161).
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 being drunk attempting to swim is drown'd.
Mounted as item 164 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 145850.161).
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 being drunk attempting to swim is drown'd.
Mounted as item 164 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: 148 x 100 mm; plate mark: 153 x 106 mm; sheet: 176 x 125 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print in four panels, the first showing a man swimming underwater; the second showing three men at a table, two of them seated and holding up glasses as the third expires on the floor, with caption, "Three drinking Brandy by halfe Pint's one dies imediatly."; the third showing a group of three men and a woman carousing at a table, with the man at far left saying "Oh Cursed Drinking", with caption, "Three men and one Woman drank of a Barel of Beer."; fourth panel shows two men immersed in a large wooden vat, with caption, "Two Brewers Servants being Drunk fell into a Scallding Cauldren."
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