A female publican ejecting a drunk from a tavern in Georgian England. Other customers watch from a bench outside the public house in Gravesend on the River Thames. Prudence Wright throwing out wherry-man Dick Tinder. Fire and water. Handcoloured wood engraving after an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson from W. H. Harrison’s The Humourist, a Companion for the Christmas Fireside, Rudolph Ackermann, 19 Strand, London, 1831.

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