The Bottle: Plate II. He Is Discharged from His Employment for Drunkeness...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
notes: label: Description
content: This black and white etching is one of eight scenes drawn by George Cruikshank depicting the progressive degeneration of a family due to the evils of drinking. The print is an interior scene of a man, a woman, and three children. The father is no longer trim and energetic but is instead overweight. He sits despondently or in a drunken stupor next to the fire while the daughter hands a new bottle to the mother and the mother hands the daughter what appears to be a bundle of clothes. A cat walks across a table that is pushed against the wall. The flowers on the chest on the left droop while one of the figurines is lying on its side, and most of the dishes in the cupboard are gone, presumably pawned. The two younger children huddle together on a small table or footstool. 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.
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 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
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content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
topic: label: Subject
content: Clocks
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content: Drinking
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content: Heating
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content: Pets
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content: Chronology: 1840-1849
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content: Marriage
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content: Children
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content: Economy
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content: Flowers
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content: Furnishings
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content: Toys
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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.60.2911
label: catalog number
content: 60.2911
label: accession number
content: 228146
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Etching
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label: Measurements
content: image: 8 1/2 in x 15 in; 21.59 cm x 38.1 cm