The progress of drunkenness [graphic]

"Twelve men, realistically depicted, arranged in two rows, their words etched above their heads. Above are figures at a tavern dinner, all seated but the first and last. The chairman gives a toast: "Are you all charged Gentlemen". A guest orders: "A glass of Salt and Water for that Gentleman ..." A tipsy man says: "A Song Gentlemen if you please." A military officer flourishes arms and legs, spilling his wine: "Sing Old Rose, and burn the bellows, - the bellows, - The bellows". An apparently composed man says: "I humbly move to throw the waiter out of the window, and charge him in the bill." A man holding his coat over his arm says: "I'll burn my coat first for a hundred." Below are men in the street, all but the penultimate with bludgeons. One, resembling Hanger, says "Scour the Watch - a- hoy". The next shouts "Down with em' thats your sort" (cf. BMSat 8073). The next, tottering, and almost asleep, says, "We are the boys for a riot". The next two say, respectively, "Where the deuce have we got to now and Scudding before the gale by Jupiter." The last, seated on the ground asleep, leans against a post: "Lodged for the Night". Similar in character to BMSat 8541, &c, and perhaps belonging to the same set."--British Museum online catalogue