Plate lettered in the top center 'I': Reverse copies of details from figures from the lower left corner of Hogarth's "Gin Lane". Numbered 1: The figure of the drunken woman whose baby falls from her arms (only legs of the child are shown), 2. Skeletal figure from lower right, who clutches a gin bottle in a basket with the broadside titled "The downfall of Mmd. Gin"; 3. A woman feeding her child from a glass, from mid-scene right; 4) Figure also from mid-scene right forcing more drink down the throat of a man being carried in a wheelbarrel
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Printmaker and date from other prints in this series in the British Museum online catalogue., Plate from: Lichtenberg's Göttinger Taschen Kalender., and Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
