The caption for this illustration reads: Sweet-Girl Graduates Afternoon Tea versus Wine. The man in the background is saying: “This is precious slow! Let’s go and have some beer!” It is taken from the Punch Almanac for 1873. Punch, or The London Charivari, was a British weekly magazine of humor and satire established in 1841 by Henry Mayhew and wood-engraver Ebenezer Landells. Historically, it was most influential in the 1840s and 1850s, when it helped to coin the term "cartoon" in its modern sense as a humorous illustration.

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