Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.
Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.
Hogarth’s Gin Craze Festival
Friday, July 19, 6–9 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.