The planished and chased surface decorated with narrative scenes chronicling the descent of a working man's alcoholism and the effect on his family, the upper frieze section with three rectangular panels depicting the bearded labourer drinking beer above a cautionary text reading 'DRINK NOT THE GLASS WHICH THOU CANST NOT TAME, WHEN ONCE IT IS WITHIN THEE BUT BEFORE, MAYST RULE IT AS THOU LIST AND POUR THE SHAME, WHICH IT WOULD POUR ON THEE UPON THE FLOOR!, IT IS MOST JUST THROW THAT ON THE GROUND, WHICH WOULD THROW ME THERE I KEEP THE ROUND.', the lower frieze with a similarly shaped panel to the left depicting the despair of his wife and family and an elongated panel to the middle and right depicting the labourers later inebriated and prostrate body, signed and dated to the right bottom corner A. Fisher, 1902, the whole mounted onto a wood backboard, 118cm high x 153.5cm wide x 7cm deep overall approximately