Gin Lane is a 1751 print by the English artist William Hogarth, issued together with its companion print Beer Street in support of what became the Gin Act. Designed to be viewed alongside Beer Street, it depicts the evils of gin consumption as a contrast to the supposed merits of drinking beer, and was issued together with The Four Stages of Cruelty as part of a shift in Hogarth's work toward sharper satire on poverty and crime.
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Two prints issued in 1751 by English artist William Hogarth, in support of the Gin Act
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Engraved directly from drawings, no paintings of the two scenes exist, although there are preliminary sketches
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Gin Lane is a 1751 print by the English artist William Hogarth, issued together with its companion print Beer Street in support of what became the Gin Act.
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Beer Street and Gin Lane are two prints issued in 1751 by English artist William Hogarth in support of what would become the Gin Act. Designed to be viewed alongside each other, they depict the evils of the consumption of gin (the
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