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| Picture No | 10434063 |
| Date | 1848 |
| Description | The dram drinker |
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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'.
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| Source | Kenny Meadows in The Illustrated London News, 6th May 1848, page 298 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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