After losing their money through gambling and killing their father in an accident, one brother kills himself with poison while another shoots himself in the head with a pistol. Etching, 179-.
- Date:
- 1790-1799
- Reference:
- 33374i
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An episode recounted in 'The fatal effects of gaming', The American bee, Leominster (Mass.), 1797, pp. 93-100, possibly reprinted from an earlier volume. Two brothers called Hargrave lost their money through gambling and resorted to highway robbery. In the course of a robbery they accidentally shot and killed their own father in a post-chaise. Thereupon one brother poisoned himself and the other shot himself
Publication/Creation
1790-1799
Physical description
1 print : etching, with engraving ; image 14 x 9 cm
Lettering
The fatal effects of gaming.
Reference
Wellcome Collection 33374i
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