The Bottle: Plate 7. Madness.-The Drunkard Becomes a Lunatic over the Body of His Murdered Wife-The Bottle Has Done Its Work.
date: label: date made
content: ca 1884
name: label: copyright holder
content: Marques, M.
label: maker
content: unknown
label: original artist
content: Cruikshank, George
notes: label: Description
content: This black and white tinted print depicts seven of eight scenes based on George Cruikshank's <i>The Bottle.</i> The series shows the progressive degeneration of a family due to the evils of drinking. This print is an interior scene of a crowd gathered around the body of a dead woman. The weapon, a broken bottle, lies on the floor at her feet. The husband stands next to the fireplace and is being seized by a policeman. Another policeman consoles the crying daughter. The son, also crying, stands next to the fireplace.
label: Description
content: This series of prints is by the English artist George Cruikshank (1792-1878). Cruikshank’s father, Isaac Cruikshank, was an artist who specialized in song sheets and caricatures and trained George and his brother Robert Cruikshank in these arts. George started as a caricaturist for magazines and children’s books. His most famous works included <i>The Bottle</i> and <i>The Drunkard’s Children,</i> designed and etched by Cruikshank to show the wickedness of alcohol. Cruikshank's father and brother were both alcoholics and he himself drank heavily until he took a vow of abstinence in 1847. These prints were published by David Bogue, who published most of Cruikshank’s other works in the 1850s. David Bogue, (1807–1856) was born in Scotland and moved to London in 1836. Bogue began working in Charles Tilt's bookshop as a publisher and bookseller in 1836 and became Tilt's partner in 1840. Bogue bought the shop in 1843. He was the principle publisher of Cruikshank’s short-lived periodicals, brief illustrated stories, and the <i>Comic Almanack 1835-53.</i> David Bogue published <i>The Bottle</i> series in 1847. Bogue suffered from heart disease and died in 1856 at the age of 48. There is no information available about the lithographer of this series however the inscription on the print reads COPYRIGHTED BY M. MARQUES, 1885.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: World
topic: label: Subject
content: Chronology: 1880-1889
label: Subject
content: Drinking
label: Subject
content: Municipal Government
label: Subject
content: Heating
label: Subject
content: Marriage
label: Subject
content: Children
label: Subject
content: Murder
label: Subject
content: Temperance
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Family & Social Life
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content: Temperance Movement
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content: Art
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.60.2391
label: catalog number
content: 60.2391
label: accession number
content: 228146
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Lithograph
label: Object Type
content: Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
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content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 4 3/4 in x 7 in; 12.065 cm x 17.78 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 in x 8 in; 15.24 cm x 20.32 cm