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"They cry, who want it; having it they laugh" (1773) (2)

(Alcohol addiction) Two old men, one is leaning on a staff and the other is embracing a tankard; their unkempt appearance is indicative of the ravages of alcoholism. (Source: "Human passions delineated in above 120 figures...designed in the Hogarthian style.." by Tim Bobbin [ie, pseudonym of English caricaturist and satirical poet John Collier, 1708-1786] and engraved by Thomas Sanders. London, 1773. Courtesy of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland. Public domain.)

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