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Comic postcard, Man rolling home Date: 20th century
Comic postcard, drunkard on wrong train - speak to the driver! Date: 20th century
Comic postcard, drunkard in cemetery Date: 20th century
Comic postcard, Middle-aged woman and doctor - I ll come back when you re sober! Date: 20th century
Comic postcard, Husband home drunk Date: 20th century
Bonzo has a go at cocktail making. Date: c. 1930Bonzo has a go at cocktail making. Date: c.1930
Two Regency men stoppped to talk in a freezing wind, one impatient to walk home. Miseries of Social Life. Handcoloured copperplate engraving designed
Barber and customer in a barbershop decorated with wigs. The Shaver and the Shavee. Handcoloured copperplate engraving designed by Henry Bunbury
View and plan of Napoleons final residence on Saint HelenaView and plan of Longwood House, Saint Helena. Final residence of Napoleon Bonaparte, exiled after the Battle of Waterloo
English tourists promenading in the Tuileries Garden, Paris, 19th century. French cuirassiers, ladies in crinolines stroll in the gardens. Mr
A peasant up a tree disturbs a courting couple below. The bumpkin in search of his calf. Le villageois qui cherche son veau
English tourists hunting in the highlands of Scotland, caught by a Scottish gamekeeper in tartan kilt and gaiters. Doctor Prosody taken for a poacher in the neighbourhood of Stirling
Married couple on a comic greetings card, with verse (some of it deleted) and pull tab -- the wife is angry because her husband is late home, and appears to be drunk. Date: circa 1850s
Illustration, Scene at the Cock and Punch Bowl - a drunken party. 19th century
Illustration, Christopher Sly, The Taming of the Shrew. 19th century
Little Brother and Sister - Scene from Little Brother and Sister. Little Sister espies her brother transformed into a deer having drunk bewithched water in the forest
DRUNKS IN SCOTS TAVERNWild revelry and drunkenness go hand in hand inside a Scottish tavern. Date: late 18th century
The General Election - An Enthusiastic SupporterComic Postcard series - The General Election - An Enthusiastic Supporter rolling-in after a hearty session of seemingly liquid-based campaigning!! 1908
WORKERS GUILD DRINKINGA German workers guild on their day off processing through the streets and drinking copiously. Date: 1847
DRUNKEN HUSBAND AT HOMEDespite being told not to stay out drinking by his wife, a husband returns several hours later in an intoxicated state, with his wife waiting up for him. Date: mid-19th century
WILD CHAMPAGNE DRINKERSHave a good time all the time seems to be the outlook of a boisterous gentleman at a party; being surrounded by champagne and girls certainly helps matters. Date: 1904
TOM & JERRY IN THE PUB TOM & JERRY IN THE PUBTom, Jerry & Logic among the unsophisticated sons & daughters of nature at All Max in the East End of London Date: 1821
WELL AT MOULINS, FRANCEIn this well in the rue des Grenouilles, at Moulins, France, maitre Jean Cabuche, being drunk, fell and was drowned, polluting the water for his neighbours Date: medieval
SILENUSAttendant and nurse of Bacchus, usually drunk
DUTCH DRINKER DRUNKDutch drinkers after a drinking session Date: 17th Century
HEATH / TAVERN CLIENTELETavern clientele returning from a tavern the old way and the new way - a satirical perspective Date: 1830
SPIRIT SACRIFICE TO WINEMan in drunken stupor, surrounded by bacchic cherubs, preferring earthly pleasure of wine to heavenly promises
A customer sits with a drink in Browns Hotel, LaugharneA customer sits with a drink in Browns Hotel, King Street, Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, Wales, where poet and writer Dylan Thomas used to drink and get drunk Date: 1988
Belgian Proverb - He who drank will drink. Date: circa 1908
A Copper cops a Muddler in the mud - Salisbury Plain Date: 1916
WW1 - German Propaganda - Taming the Allied animalsWW1 - German Propaganda - A German soldier Tames the Allied animals. Date: circa 1910s
Sloshed Woman 1928Sloshed! A drunken young lady puts her feet on the table and knocks back the booze; her companion is not impressed. Date: 1928
Hic Jacet - Here Lies - drunken man collapsed in gutter(hic!) jacet (translated from the Latin: " Here Lies" ) - a drunken Londoner collapsed in gutter, his umbrella and hat discarded onto the street in his stupor. Date: circa 1890s
Police Tea BreakA Metropolitan Police officer drinking a cup of tea break on Derby Day. In 1947 over 16 million cups of tea were drunk by the Metropolitan Police
Medieval DebaucheryHEREWARD THE WAKE Surrounded by his drunken men, Hereward (far right) sees Martin Lightfoot departing (far left) with the letter and realises that he must be stopped
Piece of string with comic verse on a Christmas cardPiece of string with comic verse instructions on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s
Comic postcard -- boy and sleeping trampComic postcard -- a boy urinating on a sleeping tramp through a fence. Date: circa 1900s
Comic postcard, Drunken man in the street, hanging onto a belisha beacon, seeing triple and feeling ill Date: 20th century
Humanised bottles and fruit on a Christmas cardHumanised bottles and fruit contributing to a bowl of punch on a Christmas and New Year card. Date: circa 1890s
Comic German postcard -- drunkard in the toiletComic German postcard by Arthur Thiele -- a drunkard collapses at the side of a toilet. Date: early 20th century
The Way Home - a drunken Russian man staggering home" The Way Home" - a drunken Russian man staggering homeward, about to incur the not insubstantial wrath of his wife
Intoxication - drawing by Paris-based artist Jan Olitzki - a woman has passed out under the effects of a heavy night on the tiles - in so doing her top has unfortunately descended
Peasant Kermis, c. 1665, by David Teniers the Younger (1610David Teniers the Younger (1610-1690). Flemish painter. Peasant Kermis, c.1665. Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam. Holland
Odysseus offering wine to Polyphemus. Mosaic. 3rd-4rd century. Roman Villa. Piazza Armerina. Sicily. Italy
Dionysus, god of wine. Vatican MuseumsDionysus, god of wine. Relief of roman sarcophagus depicting Dionysos with Maenad, satyr and Panther. Vatican Museums. City of the Vatican
Victorian family with drunkard husbandSlide showing a picture of a man and a woman talking with two children. The woman is pointing at a shop with a sign saying Christmas Gin with a man in torn clothes walking past. Part of Box 366
If Only We Spoke the Truth by Bruce BairnsfatherA disgruntled gentleman in evening dress thinks aloud, I wish you drank something cheaper, while glowering at his female companion who looks somewhat worse for wear due to all the champagne shes