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Go Home, You Are Drunk - Go Home 18th-Century Ladies, You Are Drunk.

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This print, by the British caricaturist Richard Newton, depicts eight types of inebriated women (some NSFW). Titled “Samples of Sweethearts and Wives!,” the print presents a catalog of female debauchery: women lolling on couches, vomiting copiously, running into posts, and being carried home by long-suffering men.

The “gin epidemic” of the first half of the 18th century saw a big increase in alcohol consumption after unregulated distillation made cheap gin available to all classes in London. While the height of that craze would have been over by the time this print was published in 1795, it had been widely satirized, not least by printmaker William Hogarth. Newton’s “Sweethearts” shows how the influence of that era persisted, both in actual alcohol consumption and in artists’ fascination with the topic.

Eighteenth-century satirical prints pushed the boundaries of propriety, as these ladies in their various states of undress and illness show, and Newton’s caricatures were particularly saucy. Prints such as these were often considered unfit for ladies to view. So it seems that “Samples of Sweethearts and Wives!” would have remained a joke among men.

London publisher William Holland printed Newton’s work, and, as historian David Alexander notes, often wrote the captions. In the last panel, a sober-seeming “my dear Charlotte” turns a knowing eye to the viewer while her male companion stumbles beside her. Holland’s caption, capturing his ramblings, seems to remind the male reader that drunken men could be ridiculous, too.

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