Accession number
PML 145850.133
Published
[London : 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 145850.161 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: Healths drank one drinks off a pottle pot of Sack and dyes within two hours after.
Mounted as item 133 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 145850.161 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: Healths drank one drinks off a pottle pot of Sack and dyes within two hours after.
Mounted as item 133 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: 134 x 108 mm; plate mark: 168 x 110 mm; sheet: 183 x 137 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print in four panels, the first showing a man drinking a toast at a table in the upper half of the frame and lying on the ground in the lower, saying as he dies, "Oh Cursed health Drinking"; the second showing three men lying on the ground and vomiting, with caption, "5, or 6, Drank Healths in a Strange manner and dyed one after another in a few weeks."; the third showing a man lying in a river with his horse standing at right, with caption, "One Drownd in a Shallow brook of water being Drunk his horse standing by."; fourth panel shows a man falling onto jagged rocks, with caption, "An exceeding Drunkard in Pembrokshire being drunk, broke himself all to pieces from an high Rock."
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