The Bottle: Plate V. Cold, Misery, and Want...designed and etched by George Cruikshank and published by David Bogue
date: label: Date made
content: 1847
name: label: maker
content: Cruikshank, George
label: publisher
content: Bogue, David
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content: This black and white etching is fifth of eight scenes drawn by George Cruikshank depicting the progressive degeneration of a family due to the evils of drinking. This print is an interior scene of a family, now reduced to two children after the starvation death of the baby/toddler. Mother, father and son huddle near a meager fire, the mother holding a wine glass, the father holding a bottle. The daughter stands with her hand on the toddler's coffin. The mother and daughter are weeping but now the mother holds a glass. A fork is stuck in the wall and holds up a piece of fabric that is covering the window, and a candle is stuck in the wine bottle on the mantle. This series is a folio edition. On the reverse of Plate I. is the title page of the series and an inscription from the artist, including the cost of one shilling or six shillings for prints block tinted for shading on finer paper. The series is contained in a portfolio.
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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 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.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
topic: label: Subject
content: Drinking
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content: Chronology: 1840-1849
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content: Children
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content: Furnishings
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Clothing & Accessories
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content: Family & Social Life
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content: Temperance Movement
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content: Domestic Furnishings
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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.60.2914
label: catalog number
content: 60.2914
label: accession number
content: 228146
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Etching
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label: Measurements
content: image: 8 1/2 in x 13 in; 21.59 cm x 33.02 cm