Suicide, 'The maniac father and the convict brother are gone - the poor girl, homeless, friendless, deserted, destitute, and gin-mad, commits self-murder'. The Drunkard's Children. Image taken from The Bottle, and the Drunkard's Children. In sixteen plates designed and etched by G. Cruikshank.. Originally published in London, 1905. Author George Cruikshank the Elder, Illustrated by George Cruikshank.