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Title
Allegory of Drink: Abstinence Oath
Date
c.1801–1825
Medium
oil on metal
Measurements
H 30 x W 38 cm
Accession number
SBT 1973-48
Acquisition method
unknown acquisition method
Work type
Painting
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire CV37 6QW England
Stories
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North Side of the West Wall of Nakht's Offering Chapel (detail, middle right). c.1908–1914, drawing (facsimile) by Norman de Garis Davies (1865–1941), Lancelot Crane (1880–1918), Francis Sydney Unwin (1885–1925) and Hugh R. Hopgood of a wall painting from c.1410–1370 BC. Image credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, CC0
Divinity, drunkenness and desire: the story of wine in artAnne Wallentine