A satire on gin drinking: In a cellar distillery with a large cask a group of male figures with the heads of monkeys and women with heads of cats are drinking heavily with some vomiting.
766.00.00.08+ Impression 2
Acquired November 2022
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!
832.00.00.50
Acquired December 2019
“Three women and a man stand drinking gin in an interior in St Giles’s, London; the woman on the left grabs a bottle from a shelf, to her right a woman holds up a gin cup; the man stands behind the three women leaning against a clock and a fireplace.”–British Museum online catalogue.
789.06.01.03+
Acquired April 2019
A city scene with a line of poor men, women, and children lined up from a money lender’s shop to the “Temple of Juniper: Best gin”. In the background crowds stand at the doorways of the workhouse (right) and the county gaol (left).
Catalog Record & Digital Collection
834.01.01.01
Acquired January 2016
Following imprint: “Great Allowance will be made to Shopkeepers and Hawkers.”
Acquired June, 2011 by the Lewis Walpole Library.