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The Bottle, Plate V, "Cold, Misery, and want, destroy their youngest child: they console themselves with the bottle,"
The Bottle, Plate V, "Cold, Misery, and want, destroy their youngest child: they console themselves with the bottle,"
Public domain: Image courtesy of the Worcester Art Museum.

The Bottle, Plate V, "Cold, Misery, and want, destroy their youngest child: they console themselves with the bottle,"

Artist/Culture (British, 1792–1878)
Publisher (British, 1807/8–1856)
Date1847
Mediumlithograph on cream wove paper, glyphograph
Dimensionsimage: 22 x 33 cm (8 11/16 x 13 in.)
sheet: 34 x 50.6 cm (13 3/8 x 19 15/16 in.)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineGift of Dr. Samuel B. Woodward
Object number1934.153
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Image Not Available for The Drunkard's Children
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Image Not Available for Se aprovechan (They avail themselves); plate 16 from Disasters of War
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