To gin drinkers!! [graphic].

Description

Title: To gin drinkers!! [graphic].
Alternative Title: Gin Lane
Creator: Marks, John Lewis, printmaker
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Marks, John Lewis, publisher.
Published / Created: [between 1832 and 1855]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published by J.L. Marks, 91 Long Lane, Smithfield
Abstract: 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!
Description: Title from letterpress text above image.
Title engraved below image: Gin Lane. "Hogarth" engraved above image.
Imprint engraved below image.
"Price one penny plain, two-pence coloured."--Bottom of letterpress sheet.
Marks was active at this Smithfield address from 1832 until his death in 1855. See British Museum online catalogue.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Jarndyce; December 2019.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 23.2 x 19 cm, on sheet 33.2 x 21 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1832
Engravings England London 1832
Broadsides
Material: engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: text and still image
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain.
Subject (Topic): Alcoholism
Drinking of alcoholic beverages
Gin
Intoxication
Subjects: Alcoholism > Great Britain
Drinking of alcoholic beverages > Great Britain
Gin
Intoxication
England > 1832
England > London > 1832

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