"Design in an irregular oval border to which four scrolls are attached: ‘To the Work House, To the Mad-House, To the Gaol, The Gibbet'. The shop is ornate and pilastered, lit by a double gas chandelier. The customers, dregs of the town, stand at the counter, within the toothed circle of a huge man-trap on the floor. A drunken man in the remnants of fashionable clothes, takes a glass from the barmaid (right). She is outwardly comely, but her fashionable dress, a smiling mask, and gloves, conceal a skeleton, revealed by a skull which grins from her shoulder, and the bones of a foot and ankle. Beside her is a book: ‘Open Gin Shop The Way to Wealth'. An old hag drinks, another gives gin to an infant in her arms; a little girl drains a glass, and a tiny child clamours at the counter. On the counter stands a small cask on which sits a skeleton: Bacchus with bottle and glass. On the left stands Death (who has set the trap), a skeleton dressed as a London watchman; he holds up an hour-glass in place of lantern; he holds a javelin which points ominously to a trap-door in the boards at his feet. He says: ‘I shall have them all dead drunk presently! They have nearly had their last glass'. On the extreme right behind the barmaid is a doorway framing a ring of little demons dancing round a spirit-still; a skull grins from the transparent retort; below the floor is a dark space: ‘Spirit Vaults'. The casks in the shop are coffins. A huge one is ‘Old Tom' [gin, especially if good and strong]. The others are ‘Deady's Cordial' [Deady was a well-known distiller], ‘Kill Devil' [rum, especially if new], ‘Blue Ruin' [bad gin], ‘Gin & Bitters'. On the wall are two placards: [1] a playbill, ‘Drury Lane Theatre, Road to Ruin [cf. British Museum Satires No. 8073] --Life in London [cf. British Museum Satires No. 14320], Devil to Pay' [cf. British Museum Satires No. 7908]; [2] ‘Wanted a few Members to complete A Burial Society'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Four lines of quoted verse below title: "Now oh dear, how shocking the thought is, They makes the gin from aquafortis; They do it on purpose folks lives to shorten, And tickets it up at two-pence a quartern". New Ballad., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., One of six plates of a series entitled: Scraps and sketches / by George Cruikshank. Part the second. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 11, pages 239-240., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Drunkeness -- Children and Childcare
Publisher:
George Cruikshank
Subject (Topic):
Alcoholism, Death (Personification), Alcoholic beverages, Gin, Intoxication, Children, Demons, Stills (Distilleries), and Coffins
Caption title., Authorship attribution and date of publication from Cohn and Reid., Originally published in the March, April, and May 1868 issues of the Band of hope review. For the serial and octavo editions, see: Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank: a catalogue raisonné, 48, 468., Twelve woodcut illustrations, arranged in three rows of four, with verses in letterpress below. Numbered list of 27 "Illustrated penny readings" with prices is printed beneath woodcuts. With decorative border., "Reprinted from the Band of hope review. An illustrated paper for The young. Published monthly. Price one halfpenny"--Beneath title., "Price one penny"--Lower left., "This is printed in a book form, 16 pp., price one penny"--Lower right., and This record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Published by S.W. Partridge & Co., 9, Paternoster Row, London
Subject (Topic):
Temperance, Alcoholism, Public health, Alcoholic beverages, Gin, and Intoxication
Caption title., Authorship attribution and date of publication from Cohn and Reid., Originally published in the March, April, and May 1868 issues of the Band of hope review. For the serial and octavo editions, see: Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank: a catalogue raisonné, 48, 468., Twelve woodcut illustrations, arranged in three rows of four, with verses in letterpress below., "Reprinted from the Band of hope review. An illustrated paper for The young. Published monthly. Price one halfpenny"--Beneath title., "Price one penny"--Lower left, following series statement., and This record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
S.W. Partridge & Co., "British Workman" Office, 9, Paternoster Row, London and Geo. Watson & Co., printers, 28, Charles Street, Farringdon Road
Subject (Topic):
Temperance, Alcoholism, Public health, Alcoholic beverages, Gin, and Intoxication
Gin-shop, Peep into a prison, and Look through the land from north to south
Description:
BEIN BrSides 2011 72: 44 x 30 cm., Caption title., Signed: Z. [i.e. Hannah More]., Date from Spinney., Verse - "Look through the land from north"., Following imprint: "Great Allowance will be made to Shopkeepers and Hawkers.", Price from imprint: "Price an Half-penny, or 2s, 3d, per 100, 1s, 3d, for 50, 9d. for 25.", A Cheap repository tract., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Sold by S. Hazard, (printer to the Cheap Repository for moral and religious tracts) at Bath; by J. Marshall, printer to the Cheap Repositories, No. 17, Queen-street, Cheap-side, and No. 4, Aldermary Church-yard; and R. White, Piccadilly, London; and by all booksellers, newsmen, and hawkers, in town and country
Title written below image., Artist's initials on lower left, and on right, [anchor]--G. Cruikshank fect., Date based on original work created 1833., Pubd. by Thos McLean, 26 Haymarket, Augt. 1st, 1835 [scored through]., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Title from caption below images., Design composed of two panels separated by a space with text: Wide as the poles asunder., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Reference to temperance -- Representation of evils -- Virtues., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 70.
Publisher:
publisher not identified and A. Ducotè lithog. 10, St. Martin's Lane
Subject (Topic):
Devil, Families, Fish, Fishing, Gin, Vice, and Water
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
A woman in a pink dress gazes expectantly at a man on the right of the print, whilst hitching up her apron to reveal a green underskirt by placing her hands on her hips. The man returns her gaze in profile with a disapproving expression, whilst clutching onto carrots and turnips in the crook of his right elbow and left hand. The woman has ginger hair, and wears a white bonnet with red ribbons, and the man wears a black hat
Alternative Title:
Will you give us a glass of gin
Description:
Title from dialogue etched below image., Leaf 13 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., and 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 19.9 x 14.7 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 4, 1793, by R. Dighton
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Gin, Occupations, Oysters, and Vegetables
A woman in a pink dress gazes expectantly at a man on the right of the print, whilst hitching up her apron to reveal a green underskirt by placing her hands on her hips. The man returns her gaze in profile with a disapproving expression, whilst clutching onto carrots and turnips in the crook of his right elbow and left hand. The woman has ginger hair, and wears a white bonnet with red ribbons, and the man wears a black hat
Alternative Title:
Will you give us a glass of gin
Description:
Title from dialogue etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 4, 1793, by R. Dighton
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Gin, Occupations, Oysters, and Vegetables
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1834?]
Call Number:
Print01172
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Signed in lower left corner with C.J. Grant's initials., Possibly an illustration from Every body's album & caricature magazine, a series published in 1834 by J. Kendrick., Sheet trimmed with possible loss of title and imprint., This record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Gin shops.
Publisher:
J. Kendrick?
Subject (Topic):
Eating & drinking facilities, Gin, Intoxication, Alcoholism, Poor persons, and Children
