The Drunken Husband · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture · Center for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: The Drunken Husband
Period: 1750-1800;
Geographic: Ancient Greece; London
Description: A drunk man lays on the ground while reaching out with his left hand towards a woman who approaches him with a platter of food. They are inside of a tomb, an underground cemetery, which is lit up by a single flame coming from a candle on the wall. The man and woman are husband and wife.
Image Creator: A. Walker (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:27598
Language: eng
Source Name: Fables Translated from Aesop, and Other Authors
Parent Collection: E6 - Fables translated from AEsop. Engravings by A. Walker. (1760); E6 - Fables translated from AEsop. Engravings by A. Walker. (1760)
Image: mta_27598_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Aesop's Fables
Subject: Tombs & sepulchral monuments; Intoxication