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Black-and-white lithograph of a crowded gin palace with skeleton figures on pillars and drinkers in top hats in the foreground.

Interior of a Temple of Juniper: gin palace caricature, 1834

A crowded caricature of a gin palace interior, titled Interior of a Temple of Juniper, with skeletal figures on pillars labeled Poverty, Disease, Insanity, Madness, Murder and Death. Drinkers in top hats and ragged clothes gather in the foreground beneath a coffered ceiling, in a black-and-white lithograph.

Artist
Charles Jameson Grant
Date
14 Feb 1834
Medium
Caricatures Lithographs
Source
Wellcome Collection
Size
4000 × 3654 px
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Public domain · Wellcome Collection marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1834.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Wellcome Collection)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Wellcome Collection

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