Hogarth’s Gin Craze Festival
Friday, July 19, 6–9 pm
No Tickets or reservations required. Food and drink available for purchase.
Free with Museum admission 6–7 pm and free 7–8:30 pm.
Join us for an evening of revelry inspired by the Gin Craze of the 1750s! Enjoy gin-inspired bites and craft cocktails at Morgan Café and curatorial gallery talks at 6 pm and 7:30 pm in the exhibition Hogarth: Cruelty and Humor. At 7 pm we will screen the 1946 film Bedlam which was inspired by William Hogarth’s A Rake's Progress.
William Hogarth (1697–1764), Gin Street, 1750–51, red chalk, some graphite, on paper, incised with stylus. The Morgan Library & Museum, Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913) in 1909. Photography Steven H. Crossot, 2014.