Accession number
PML 146852.21
Creator
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Published
[London] : Publish'd according to Act of Parliamt, Feb.1, 1751.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
12 lines of verse by Rev. James Townley engraved in 3 columns below image: Gin cursed Fiend, with Fury fraught ... And rolls it thro' the Veins.
"Publish'd according to Act of Parliamt Feb.1.1751 ... Price 1s".
Companion print to Hogarth's "Beer Street".
The 3rd state, with crosshatching added to the baby's face in foreground. Cf. Paulson.
Print forms part of an album (PML 146852) that is one of three containing the collected works of William Hogarth; evidently comprised of prints reissued by the artist's widow and compiled no earlier than 1781 (see PML 146851-53).
12 lines of verse by Rev. James Townley engraved in 3 columns below image: Gin cursed Fiend, with Fury fraught ... And rolls it thro' the Veins.
"Publish'd according to Act of Parliamt Feb.1.1751 ... Price 1s".
Companion print to Hogarth's "Beer Street".
The 3rd state, with crosshatching added to the baby's face in foreground. Cf. Paulson.
Print forms part of an album (PML 146852) that is one of three containing the collected works of William Hogarth; evidently comprised of prints reissued by the artist's widow and compiled no earlier than 1781 (see PML 146851-53).
Description
1 print : etching & engraving ; image: 359 x 303 mm; plate mark: 388 x 325 mm; sheet: 625 x 455 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in pen at lower right: JT.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a scene of urban desolation and decay, populated by gin-crazed Londoners, notably a woman in the foreground who lets her child fall to its death and an emaciated ballad-seller; in the background is the tower of St. George's Bloomsbury.
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