Gin lane [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Gin lane [graphic]
- Creator
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Contributor
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist, printmaker.
- Published / Created
- publish'd according to act of Parliamt., Feb. 1, 1751.
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Wm. Hogarth
- Abstract
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In the streets of the slum Ruins of St. Giles, Westminster, the only business are S. Gripe pawnbroker (left), Kilman Distiller (right) and the undertaker (background right). It is a scene of urban desolation with gin-crazed Londoners -- charity children, mothers and babies, trades people, cripples, etc. -- shown dead or dying, fighting, or stupefied with drink. Notably in the foreground a syphilitic mother sitting on the steps lets her child fall to its death over the railing, towards a flagon labeled "Gin Royal", as she takes a pinch of snuff; below her in the steps, an emaciated, bare-chested ballad-seller sleeps with a glass in one hand and a basket and a jug in the other; the ballad hanging from the basket is entitled 'The downfall of Mdm Gin". His dog looks down at the empty glass. On the right in a crumbling building a barber is shown hanging by his neck; below a crowd is being pushed back towards Kilman Distiller. Mid-ground a woman is being placed in a coffin, her child weeping on the ground beside the coffin. Another child is impaled on a spit and carried along by a cook with a bellows on his head. In the background is the tower of St George's Bloomsbury; in this state, the child's face has been changed so that the face is wizened and the eyes sunken
- Description
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Title engraved above image.
State and publisher from Paulson.
Verse below image: Gin cursed fiend with fury fraught, makes human race a prey; it enters by a deadly draught, and steals our life away ...
Companion print: Beer Street.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark: 385 x 320 mm. - Provenance
- Purchased from John Grant, Ltd., August 1940; Formerly owned by Charles Kinnaird, 8th Lord Kinnaird of Inchture (1780-1826).
- Extent
- 1 print : plate mark 38.9 x 33 cm, on sheet 61.1 x 48 cm
- Edition
- [State 3].
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Kinnaird 52K(a) Box 315
- Collection Title
- Plate 75. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 50. Album of William Hogarth prints.
- Collection / Other Creator
- Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, collector.
- Collection Date
- [England], [1732-1764] [England], [not after 1753]
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Satires (Visual works) England 1751
Engravings England London 1751
Etchings England London 1751 - Material
- etching and engraving ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Topic)
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Building deterioration
Children
Crowds
Death
Dogs
Fighting
Gin
Intoxication
Occupations
Pawnshops
People with disabilities
Signs (Notices)
Slums
Starvation
Suicides
Street vendors
Undertakers - Subjects
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Building deterioration
Children
Crowds
Death
Dogs
Fighting
Gin
Intoxication
Occupations
Pawnshops
People with disabilities
Signs (Notices)
Slums
Starvation
Suicides
Street vendors
Undertakers
England > 1751
England > London > 1751
Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird, Baron, 1780-1826 > Ownership
Sotheby, Frederick Edward, 1837-1909 > Ownership
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Ownership
Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818 > Ownership
Greenberg, Richard > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9884834
- Object ID (OID)
- 16030650