Alcoholic Gallery

Medley Print: Sot's Paradise, 1706-7. Creator: George Bickham

Medley Print: Sot's Paradise, 1706-7. [Sot's Paradise: or, The Humours of a Derby-Ale-House with a Satire Upon the Ale by Edward Ward

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Summer at The Pines, c1909, (1934)

Summer at The Pines, c1909, (1934). The Pines, 11 Putney Hill, Putney, the home of Theodore Watts-Dunton (1832-1914) an English critic and poet, seen in the lower window. Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic seen in the upper window. After a decline in Swinburne?s health in 1879, he was taken into care by Watts-Dunton at The Pines, who is claimed to have rescued Swinburne from alcoholism. From The Bookman - Special Christmas Number 1934. [Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1934]

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