A nightwatchman brings a drunk home, Regency era. Watchman with lantern holds up a drunken alderman and MP. His shocked wife holds a candle at the door. Taking Home. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by William Henry Brooke after a drawing by Richard Dagley from Takings, or the Life of A Collegian, John Warren, London, 1821.

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