Cockney social caricature, drinking, Robert Seymour, 1835 / 1878.

"Precept. Young men should practice, sans intermission, until they can drink four bottles without being flustered, then they will be sober people, for it won't be easy to make them tipsy, a drunken man I abominate!!!" caricature by Robert Seymour, published in Seymour's Humorous Sketches by Henry Bohn, 1878. First published as a lithograph in about 1836, this is a later steel engraved version. Size about 11.5 x 17 cms, plus margins. Ref F6441