"Scene in an irregularly shaped cul-de-sac, placarded Gin Court and surrounded by gin-shops, with bow-fronted windows filled with bottles, &c. One fish-wife has just struck down another; each has a second, that of the victor a man (left), the other a woman with a tobacco-pipe in her hat. The windows have inscriptions, one being 'Full proof Gin & rich Cordials-Dealer in Tobaco'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Battle of Agincourt
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication based on known dates that G.E. Madeley operated at the 3 Wellington Street address., and Description based on imperfect impression; sheet mutilated on bottom edge with possible partial loss of imprint.
Publisher:
[...] T. McLean, 26 Haymarket and Printed by G.E. Madeley, 3 Wellington St., Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Drinking of alcoholic beverages, Alcoholic beverages, Commercial streets, and Fighting
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 ... the root of all evil is drunkenness!
Alternative Title:
Gin Lane
Description:
Title from letterpress text above image., Title engraved below image: Gin Lane. "Hogarth" engraved above image., Imprint engraved below image., "Price one penny plain, two-pence coloured."--Bottom of letterpress sheet., Marks was active at this Smithfield address from 1832 until his death in 1855. See British Museum online catalogue., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published by J.L. Marks, 91 Long Lane, Smithfield
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Alcoholism, Drinking of alcoholic beverages, Gin, and Intoxication
