Gin Lane
between 1750 and 1751 (Original); this print comes from a reengraving circa 1806-09 by Samuel Davenport from Hogarth's originals
- Classification
- Painting
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit line
- Reprint from circa 1880 in uploader's possession
- Rights
- Public domain, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
Gin Lane, from Beer Street and Gin Lane
The accompanying poem, not printed in this reissue, reads:
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.
