Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
The last drop [copy 1].
Call Number
D North 52/GC112/Box 11/Normal/Prints/Titles La-Mi GA 2014.00324
Identifier
ark:/88435/f7623m688
Publisher
[London] : [s.n.], 1811/04/05.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1811
Extent
1 item ; sheet 34.4 x 25.2 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Grego II, p. 203 (gives date as April 5, 1811/04/05, vol. I - Poetical Magazine; Bunbury copy)
See call no. R1785e, vol. 4
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Etchings, Hand coloring
Depiction: A short and corpulent bon-vivant, not unlike a balloon in figure, whose waistband has been abnormally distended by the bibulous propensities of the owner, is standing on tiptoe tilting up to his eager lips a huge punchbowl, too well filled to be lifted bodily--he is transferring the contents to his own inside with much gusto. While the veteran and inordinate toper is greedily engulfing his last bumping measure he is too busily engaged in the important work in hand to notice that Death, in his bony personality as a ghastly skeleton, is helping to raise the finishing bowl, while the fatal dart is poised over his head, ready for the stroke which will follow this last potation before the tippler has time to recover his breath.
Unsigned.

Discovery Information

Subject
Caricature
Alcoholics—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Death (Personification)—Caricatures and cartoons

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/d5359cdd-573a-4ff8-9de9-9b63061797ad/manifest