Title: The drunkard's children :
Authors: Cruikshank, George,
Date: 1848
Publisher: Published for the artist by D. Bogue ;
Physical description: 8 leaves : all ill. ; 42 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: N
Contents: Neglected by their parents, educated only in the streets, and falling into the hands of wretches who live upon the vices of others, they are led to the gin-shop, to drink at that fountain which nourishes every species of crime -- Between the fine gin-palace and the low dirty beer-shop, the boy-thief squanders and gambles away his ill-gotten gains -- From the gin-shop to the dancing-rooms, from the dancing-rooms to the gin-shop, the poor girl is driven on in that course which ends in misery -- Urged on by his ruffian companions, and excited by drink, he commits a desperate robbery -- he is taken by the police at a three-penny lodging house -- From the bar of the gin-shop to the bar of the Old Bailey it is but one step -- The drunkard's son is sentenced to transportation for life; the daughter, suspected of participation in the robbery is acquitted. The brother and sister part for ever in this world -- Early dissipation has destroyed the neglected boy -- the wretched convict droops, and dies -- The maniac father and the convict brother are gone -- the poor girl, homeless, friendless, deserted, destitute, and gin-mad, commits self-murder.
Notes: "An edition of each work is printed on fine paper in imperial folio, with a tint, price six shillings". Plate I printed on verso of title page.
Subject headings (LCSH): Alcoholics--Caricatures and cartoons.; Alcoholism--Caricatures and cartoons.; Caricatures and cartoons.