The dram drinker
A scruffy dram drinker keenly slurps on a glass of gin at one of London's many gin palaces; the engraving accompanies an article highlighting the depravity of the gin palace in Victorian society: Poverty and misery, and a want of the proper necessaries of life, have driven, and are still driving hundreds to drink in this vast metropolis
Picture No
10434063
Media ID
46059924
Size
3714px x 5420px
(2.8MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Kenny Meadows in The Illustrated London News, 6th May 1848, page 298
Date
1848
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