Twelve men, realistically depicted, arranged in two rows, their words etched above their heads. Above are figures at a tavern dinner, all seated but the first and last. The chairman gives a toast: "are you all charged gentlemen". A guest orders: "a glass of salt and water for that gentleman. . " a tipsy man says: "a song gentlemen if you please. " a military officer flourishes arms and legs, spilling his wine: "sing old rose, and burn the bellows, - the bellows, - the bellows". An apparently composed man says: "i humbly move to throw the waiter out of the window, and charge him in the bill. " a man holding his coat over his arm says: "i'll burn my coat first for a hundred. "
below are men in the street, all but the penultimate with bludgeons. One, resembling hanger, says "scour the watch - a- hoy". The next shouts "down with em' thats your sort" (cf. Bmsat 8073). The next, tottering, and almost asleep, says, "we are the boys for a riot". The next two say, respectively, "where the deuce have we got to now and scudding before the gale by jupiter. " the last, seated on the ground asleep, leans against a post: "lodged for the night". Similar in character to bmsat 8541, &c, and perhaps belonging to the same set. C. 1800
hand-coloured etching. Date: circa 1800. Dimensions: Height: 303 mm (cropped); Width: 467 mm (cropped). Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum. (Progress of Drunkenness) (BM 1935,0522.8.42)
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