# Gin Lane

- By: William Hogarth
- Date: between 1750 and 1751 (Original); this print comes from a reengraving circa 1806-09 by Samuel Davenport from Hogarth's originals
- Classification: Painting
- Credit line: Reprint from circa 1880 in uploader's possession
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Hogarth_-_Gin_Lane.jpg)
- Rights: Public domain
- Picture: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/William_Hogarth_-_Gin_Lane.jpg/1920px-William_Hogarth_-_Gin_Lane.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.