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Poverty, Misery, Crime, Death.
1798-1885
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Omega Project
Project Omega was conceived by the Library's Strategic Council - a scoped three year project aimed to facilitate the effective discovery and presentation of our collections, with a focus on the digitization of the Special Collections Graphic Arts backlog in Firestone library.
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Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
The Graphic Arts Collection holds prints, drawings, photographs, paintings, sculpture, and printed ephemera along with an international book collection specializing in fine press,
Metadata
- Call Number
- E North 30/GC024/Box 003/Normal/19th c./Artists Ba-Bi GA 2007.00340
- Publisher
- n.d.
- People
-
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Subject
- Death (Personification)—Caricatures and cartoons
- Drinking—Caricatures and cartoons
- Grief—Caricatures and cartoons
- Suffering—Caricatures and cartoons
- Temperance—Caricatures and cartoons
- Kings and rulers—Caricatures and cartoons
- Alcoholics—Caricatures and cartoons
- Cemeteries—Caricatures and cartoons
- Caricature
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Item Summary
Descriptive Information
- Title
- Poverty, Misery, Crime, Death.
- Call Number
- E North 30/GC024/Box 003/Normal/19th c./Artists Ba-Bi GA 2007.00340
- Identifier
- ark:/88435/dcb56454459
- Publisher
- n.d.
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Date Created
- 1798-1885
- Extent
- 1 item ; sheet 32.5 x 24 cm.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Medium: Engravings
- Depiction: King standing on barrel inscribed, "Strong Beer, Wines, Rum, Gin, Brandies, Whiskies, Compounded Liquors"; robed skeleton with liquor bottle stands behind him. Moderate drinkers in background, drunkards laying on ground, cemetery in foreground.
- Inscribed in plate.: "Prov. XXIII. 32 // 60,000 annually in the U. States".
- Signed in plate, lower right: "Designed & Engraved by J.W. Barber".
Discovery Information
- Subject
- Death (Personification)—Caricatures and cartoons
- Drinking—Caricatures and cartoons
- Grief—Caricatures and cartoons
- Suffering—Caricatures and cartoons
- Temperance—Caricatures and cartoons
- Kings and rulers—Caricatures and cartoons
- Alcoholics—Caricatures and cartoons
- Cemeteries—Caricatures and cartoons
- Caricature
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 2
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Omega Project
- Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/ef641cd0-3b76-460d-8471-4b33f9f45a68/manifest