1822 BEER STREET & GIN LANE Authentic Hogarth Heath Ed. Antique Print SET OF 2
1822 BEER STREET & GIN LANE Authentic Hogarth Heath Ed. Antique Print SET OF 2
1822 BEER STREET & GIN LANE Authentic Hogarth Heath Ed. Antique Print SET OF 2
1822 BEER STREET & GIN LANE Authentic Hogarth Heath Ed. Antique Print SET OF 2
1822 BEER STREET & GIN LANE Authentic Hogarth Heath Ed. Antique Print SET OF 2
1822 BEER STREET & GIN LANE Authentic Hogarth Heath Ed. Antique Print SET OF 2
1822 BEER STREET & GIN LANE Authentic Hogarth Heath Ed. Antique Print SET OF 2
1822 BEER STREET & GIN LANE Authentic Hogarth Heath Ed. Antique Print SET OF 2
1822 BEER STREET & GIN LANE Authentic Hogarth Heath Ed. Antique Print SET OF 2
1822 BEER STREET & GIN LANE Authentic Hogarth Heath Ed. Antique Print SET OF 2
1822 BEER STREET & GIN LANE Authentic Hogarth Heath Ed. Antique Print SET OF 2
1822 BEER STREET & GIN LANE Authentic Hogarth Heath Ed. Antique Print SET OF 2
1822 BEER STREET & GIN LANE Authentic Hogarth Heath Ed. Antique Print SET OF 2
1822 BEER STREET & GIN LANE Authentic Hogarth Heath Ed. Antique Print SET OF 2
1822 BEER STREET & GIN LANE Authentic Hogarth Heath Ed. Antique Print SET OF 2
1822 BEER STREET & GIN LANE Authentic Hogarth Heath Ed. Antique Print SET OF 2
1822 BEER STREET & GIN LANE Authentic Hogarth Heath Ed. Antique Print SET OF 2
1822 BEER STREET & GIN LANE Authentic Hogarth Heath Ed. Antique Print SET OF 2
1822 BEER STREET & GIN LANE Authentic Hogarth Heath Ed. Antique Print SET OF 2
1822 BEER STREET & GIN LANE Authentic Hogarth Heath Ed. Antique Print SET OF 2
1822 BEER STREET & GIN LANE Authentic Hogarth Heath Ed. Antique Print SET OF 2
1822 BEER STREET & GIN LANE Authentic Hogarth Heath Ed. Antique Print SET OF 2
1822 BEER STREET & GIN LANE Authentic Hogarth Heath Ed. Antique Print SET OF 2
1822 BEER STREET & GIN LANE Authentic Hogarth Heath Ed. Antique Print SET OF 2
1822 BEER STREET & GIN LANE Authentic Hogarth Heath Ed. Antique Print SET OF 2
1822 BEER STREET & GIN LANE Authentic Hogarth Heath Ed. Antique Print SET OF 2
1822 BEER STREET & GIN LANE Authentic Hogarth Heath Ed. Antique Print SET OF 2
1822 BEER STREET & GIN LANE Authentic Hogarth Heath Ed. Antique Print SET OF 2
1822 BEER STREET & GIN LANE Authentic Hogarth Heath Ed. Antique Print SET OF 2
1822 BEER STREET & GIN LANE Authentic Hogarth Heath Ed. Antique Print SET OF 2
1822 BEER STREET & GIN LANE Authentic Hogarth Heath Ed. Antique Print SET OF 2
1822 BEER STREET & GIN LANE Authentic Hogarth Heath Ed. Antique Print SET OF 2
1822 BEER STREET & GIN LANE Authentic Hogarth Heath Ed. Antique Print SET OF 2
1822 BEER STREET & GIN LANE Authentic Hogarth Heath Ed. Antique Print SET OF 2
1822 BEER STREET & GIN LANE Authentic Hogarth Heath Ed. Antique Print SET OF 2
1822 BEER STREET & GIN LANE Authentic Hogarth Heath Ed. Antique Print SET OF 2
1822 BEER STREET & GIN LANE Authentic Hogarth Heath Ed. Antique Print SET OF 2
1822 BEER STREET & GIN LANE Authentic Hogarth Heath Ed. Antique Print SET OF 2
1822 BEER STREET & GIN LANE Authentic Hogarth Heath Ed. Antique Print SET OF 2
1822 BEER STREET & GIN LANE Authentic Hogarth Heath Ed. Antique Print SET OF 2
1822 BEER STREET & GIN LANE Authentic Hogarth Heath Ed. Antique Print SET OF 2
1822 BEER STREET & GIN LANE Authentic Hogarth Heath Ed. Antique Print SET OF 2
1822 BEER STREET & GIN LANE Authentic Hogarth Heath Ed. Antique Print SET OF 2
1822 BEER STREET & GIN LANE Authentic Hogarth Heath Ed. Antique Print SET OF 2

1822 BEER STREET & GIN LANE Authentic Hogarth Heath Ed. Antique Print SET OF 2

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Beer Street and Gin Lane

Negligence, poverty and death in London

Hogarth claimed that these prints were 'calculated to reform some reigning Vices peculiar to the lower Class of People.' They were published in support of a campaign directed against gin drinking among London's poor. Consumption of cheap spirits by the poor had soared in the early eighteenth century, with dire social consequences. The campaign was led by Hogarth's friend, the novelist Henry Fielding (1707-54), who was chief magistrate for Westminster from 1749 to 1754. It was successful: an act against gin was passed later in 1751. This prevented retail sale of gin by the shops that sold normal household necessities, and was effective in curbing the evils of spirit drinking.

Beer Street celebrates the virtues of the mildly intoxicating traditional national drink. Beer inspires artists and refreshes tradesmen and labourers. It can be drunk safely on rooftops. The newfangled foreign spirit gin, however, inspires violence and careless inebriation. A gin-sodden mother is oblivious to her child's fall. Addiction to spirits leads to negligence, poverty and death.

The verses were written by Hogarth's friend James Towneley to make plain the meaning of the images. The prints were too expensive for the urban poor, but would have been within the means of the middle-class electorate. The horrors of Gin Lane provided imagery for propaganda against alcohol for another hundred years.


References:

British Museum

R. Paulson, Hogarths graphic works, 3rd edition (London, The Print Room, 1989)

D. Bindman, Hogarth and his times: serious, exh. cat. (London, The British Museum Press, 1997)

M. Hallett, The spectacle of difference: g (New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1999)

R. Paulson, Hogarth, vol 2 (Cambridge, Lutterworth, 1991-93)

Beer Street by William Hogarth

Gin Lane by William Hogarth


Beer Street

Original copperplate engraving/etching, almost 200 years old.

Overall shee size: approximately 13 1/4 x 15 13/16 inches (about 33.6 x 40.2 cm)


Size to plate impression: approx. 12 7/8 x 15 3/8 inches (about 32.6 x 39 cm)

Condition: Excellent. No significant flaws to mention other than some remnant of old adhesive (?) on BACK of paper.
This has been thoroughly conserved and de-acidifed by a professional paper conservator.
Please see large photo of plate by clicking on above image.

This is a very nice, dark impression of one of Hogarth's most sought after engravings!

Text below etching:

Beer, happy Produce of our Isle
Can sinewy Strength impart,
And wearied with Fatigue and Toil
Can cheer each manly Heart.

Labour and Art upheld by Thee
Successfully advance,
We quaff Thy balmy Juice with Glee
And Water leave to France.

Genius of Health, thy grateful Taste
Rivals the Cup of Jove,
And warms each English generous Breast
With Liberty and Love!

Gin Lane

Original copperplate engraving/etching, almost 200 years old.

Overall shee size: approximately 13 7/8 x 15 11/16 inches (about 35.3 x 39.8 cm)


Size to plate impression: approx. 12 3/4 x 15 3/8 inches (about 32.5 x 39 cm)

Condition: Excellent. No significant flaws to mention.
This has been thoroughly conserved and de-acidifed by a professional paper conservator.
Please see large photo of plate by clicking on above image.

This is a very nice, dark impression of one of Hogarth's most sought after engravings!

Text below etching:

Gin, cursed Fiend, with Fury fraught,
Makes human Race a Prey.
It enters by a deadly Draught
And steals our Life away.

Virtue and Truth, driv'n to Despair
Its Rage compells to fly,
But cherishes with hellish Care
Theft, Murder, Perjury.

Damned Cup! that on the Vitals preys
That liquid Fire contains,
Which Madness to the heart conveys,
And rolls it thro' the Veins.

Beer Street and Gin Lane

by William Hogarth

Original 195+-year-old Copperplate Engravings and Etchings from:
The Works of William Hogarth from the Original Plates Restored by James Heath, Esq., R.A.; With the Addition of Many Subjects Not Before Collected: To Which is Prefixed, a Biographical Essay on the Genius and Productions of Hogarth, and Explanations on the Subjects of the Plates by John Nichols, Esq., F.S.A.

London. Printed for Baldwin, Cradock & Joy, Paternoster Row
by Nichols and Son, Parliament Street

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