A drunken scene in a gin shop with children being given alcohol. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.

1848

1 print : etching, with watercolour ; image 22 x 33 cm.

The drunkard's children. plate 1. 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

Wellcome Collection 26035i