"A fat vicar with pipe and glass standing in a doorway, regarding a nervous thin clerk, who holds another glass and a lantern; scene illustrating the tale of 'the vicar and Moses', in which the clerk came to fetch the vicar to bury an infant but staye...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published July 17th, 1795, by I. Coard, No. 11 Lisson Street, Edgware Road
Letterpress text with wood-engravings on either side of the title at head of sheet: on the left "Temperance and Happy Family" and on the right "Intemperance and Miserable Family". Below the heading and on the upper half of the sheet, an explanation o...
Alternative Title:
Folly of dram drinking clearly exhibited
Description:
Caption title.
Publisher:
Printed and published by J. Quick, Bowling Green Lane, Clerkenwell; at the Temperance Hotel and Coffee House, 159, Aldersgate Street, City; and W. Kennedy, 21, Thomas-Street, Manchester; ...
Subject (Topic):
Barrels, Coats of arms, Distress, Families, and Intoxication
A copy after Hogarth's print "Gin Lane" that first issued in 1751, with seven lines of text in letterpress below image warning of the evils of drinking gin: "The sin of drunkenness expels reason, drowns memory, distempers the body, defaces beauty ... ...
Alternative Title:
Gin Lane
Description:
Title from letterpress text above image.
Publisher:
Published by J.L. Marks, 91 Long Lane, Smithfield
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Alcoholism, Drinking of alcoholic beverages, Gin, and Intoxication
In the center of the image a woman, dressed in a short shift, angrily pulls a bottle from the hand of a drunken man. The man sits at an oval drop-leaf table with his right fist raised and a cigar hanging from his mouth as smoke billows around his head...
The fishwives stalls are in the foreground with the masts of ship vessels behind, and among them one tall smoking funnel. The market buildings are on the right. The foreground is more crowded than in other Billingsgate prints. The chief feature is an...
Alternative Title:
Visit to Billingsgate
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from published state.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Sherwood, Jones & Co.
Subject (Geographic):
Billingsgate Ward (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856 and Lamb, Caroline, Lady, 1785-1828
Subject (Topic):
Crowds, Fishmongers, Intoxication, Riding habits, Servants, Ships, and Street vendors
Plate lettered in the top center 'G': Reverse copies of details of five men and one woman conversing and drinking, after characters in the upper left corner of Hogarth's first plate in Election entertainment. Each figure is numbered
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Subject (Topic):
Eating & drinking, Gin, Intoxication, Politicians, Smoking, and Taverns (Inns)
Plate lettered in the top center 'H': Reverse copies of details six figures from the center of Hogarth's first plate in Election entertainment. Each character is numbered; 1 and 2, two of the musicians (the woman violinist and the bass-viol player); 3...
Description from Steevens's note mounted to the right of the print: A procession of painters to the shrine of Bacchus, a slight but spirited etching. The jolly god appears crowned with a jordan. His altar is a Hogshead. Among the trophies carried alon...
Description:
Title from Steevens.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Dionysus (Greek deity) and Leveridge, Richard, 1670 or 1671-1758
Subject (Topic):
Intoxication, Painters (Artists), and Parades & processions
"A room at the Rose Tavern, Drury Lane (after the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum); to left, Tom, surrounded by prostitutes and clearly drunk, sprawls on a chair with his foot on the table; one young woman embraces him and steals his watch, anothe...
Alternative Title:
O vanity of youthfull blood, so by misuse to poison good! Woman form'd for social love, fairest gift of powers above ...
Description:
Title, state, and imprint from Paulson.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Fighting, Harps, Interiors, Intoxication, Musicians, Rake's progress, Prostitutes, Robberies, Street entertainers, Taverns (Inns), and Vandalism
