William Hogarth: "Gin Lane" and "Beer Street"

Today I want to take a look at the work of the eighteenth-century painter and engraver William Hogarth – specifically “Gin Lane” and “Beer Street”…

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Images (from Wikimedia Commons, unless otherwise stated):

Image of the Fleet Prison from The Book of Days. A miscellany of popular antiquties, in connection with the calendar ... Edited by R. Chambers (1864); p.482. Held by the British Library.

William Hogarth, The South Sea Scheme (c.1721). Scanned from The genius of William Hogarth or Hogarth's Graphical Works.

William Hogarth, “A Scene from ‘The Beggar’s Opera’ VI” (1731). Held by Tate Britain.

William Hogarth, “Mrs Jane Hogarth” (c.1750). Held by the Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums.

William Hogarth, “Beer Street” and “Gin Lane” (1751). Held by The Royal Academy of Arts.

Henry Fielding circa 1743 etching from Jonathan Wild the Great.

William Hogarth, “Frenchman” version of “Beer Street” (1751). Held by The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C..

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Quoted texts:

Jenny Uglow, Hogarth: A Life and a World (1997)

David Bindman, ODNB entry on William Hogarth

F. Antal, The Moral Purpose of Hogarth’s Art (1952)

Ernest L. Abel, The Gin Epidemic: Much Ado About What? (2001)

Jonathan White, The “Slow but Sure Poyson”: The Representation of Gin and Its Drinkers, 1736–1751 (2012)

William Hogarth advertisement in the General Advertiser (13th February 1751)

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Also consulted, were:

Other relevant entries from The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online.

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