- Creator:
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- November 1st, 1829.
- Call Number:
- Print00048
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Design in an irregular oval border to which four scrolls are attached: ‘To the Work House, To the Mad-House, To the Gaol, The Gibbet'. The shop is ornate and pilastered, lit by a double gas chandelier. The customers, dregs of the town, stand at the counter, within the toothed circle of a huge man-trap on the floor. A drunken man in the remnants of fashionable clothes, takes a glass from the barmaid (right). She is outwardly comely, but her fashionable dress, a smiling mask, and gloves, conceal a skeleton, revealed by a skull which grins from her shoulder, and the bones of a foot and ankle. Beside her is a book: ‘Open Gin Shop The Way to Wealth'. An old hag drinks, another gives gin to an infant in her arms; a little girl drains a glass, and a tiny child clamours at the counter. On the counter stands a small cask on which sits a skeleton: Bacchus with bottle and glass. On the left stands Death (who has set the trap), a skeleton dressed as a London watchman; he holds up an hour-glass in place of lantern; he holds a javelin which points ominously to a trap-door in the boards at his feet. He says: ‘I shall have them all dead drunk presently! They have nearly had their last glass'. On the extreme right behind the barmaid is a doorway framing a ring of little demons dancing round a spirit-still; a skull grins from the transparent retort; below the floor is a dark space: ‘Spirit Vaults'. The casks in the shop are coffins. A huge one is ‘Old Tom' [gin, especially if good and strong]. The others are ‘Deady's Cordial' [Deady was a well-known distiller], ‘Kill Devil' [rum, especially if new], ‘Blue Ruin' [bad gin], ‘Gin & Bitters'. On the wall are two placards: [1] a playbill, ‘Drury Lane Theatre, Road to Ruin [cf. British Museum Satires No. 8073] --Life in London [cf. British Museum Satires No. 14320], Devil to Pay' [cf. British Museum Satires No. 7908]; [2] ‘Wanted a few Members to complete A Burial Society'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Four lines of quoted verse below title: "Now oh dear, how shocking the thought is, They makes the gin from aquafortis; They do it on purpose folks lives to shorten, And tickets it up at two-pence a quartern". New Ballad., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., One of six plates of a series entitled: Scraps and sketches / by George Cruikshank. Part the second. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 11, pages 239-240., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Drunkeness -- Children and Childcare, and 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 27.5 x 36.7 cm.
- Publisher:
- George Cruikshank
- Subject (Topic):
- Alcoholism, Death (Personification), Alcoholic beverages, Gin, Intoxication, Children, Demons, Stills (Distilleries), and Coffins
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > The gin shop [graphic]
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- Creator:
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1833]
- Call Number:
- Print00041
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Various humorous images comprising (clock-wise from top left); a lady in a ballgown; a portrait head of a gentleman in a very high collar and top hat holding a whip; a very thin and tall man, seated, dandling his child on his knee (lettered above "Daddy Longlegs"); a self-portrait of George Cruikshank; a study of the head of a bearded man; a seated girl, combing her hair; a man with wrinkled breeches, standing with his back to the viewer; a tall man with a pronounced hook nose (possibly the Duke of Wellington); an armoured man on horseback, turning in the saddle to his left, his sword in his hand; a country squire with his glass in his hand; a head of a man smoking a pipe; a portrait head of a bald man with an angry expression; a rural landscape; a fat sailor in naval uniform dancing a hornpipe (lettered below "Fat Jack"); a girl in an apron and bonnet; a young gentleman seated on a coach, the 'Dovor Express', and holding the reins and a whip (lettered below "Mr. Tommy Twiddlewhip playing at being a Coachman"); and a child seated on a chair and pretending to drive a team of horses; the large central image, a ragged family leaning against two Corinthian columns, the mother and father drunk, the little girl crying and the little boy with a sad expression; a large anthropomorphic copper still with an unpleasant expression on its face and a devil observing beyond (lettered below image "The Pillars of a Gin Shop."); illustration to the second volume of Cruikshank's "My Sketchbook" (1834)"--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from text beneath central prominent design., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Children and childcare., and 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 17.8 x 25.3 cm.
- Publisher:
- George Cruikshank
- Subject (Topic):
- Alcoholic beverages and Children
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > The pillars of a gin shop [and six other captioned and uncaptioned designs] / [graphic]