William Hogarth would like to know whether you live on Beer Street or Gin Lane

eddie on Fri May 27, 2011 6:02 am

Beer Street, 1751.

Healthy, industrious and prosperous community where law and custom prevail and the arts thrive.

eddie on Fri May 27, 2011 6:05 am

Gin Lane, 1751- WH.

Quite the opposite state of affairs. Gin was the crack cocaine of the day.

eddie on Fri May 27, 2011 6:11 am

Just a moment. You're not one of those ghastly, starving, priest-ridden French persons, are you?

The Gates of Calais or O, The Roast Beef of Old England, 1748- WH.

eddie on Fri May 27, 2011 6:14 am

A Just View of the British Stage, 1724- WH.

eddie on Fri May 27, 2011 6:17 am

A Rake's Progress, Plate 8, 1735, and retouched by Hogarth in 1763 by adding the Britannia emblem.

eddie on Fri May 27, 2011 6:26 am

Marriage à-la-mode, Shortly After the Marriage (scene two of six).

eddie on Fri May 27, 2011 6:34 am

The March of the Guards to Finchley 1749-1750. WH's satirical depiction of troops mustered to defend London from the 1745 Jacobite uprising.

eddie on Fri May 27, 2011 6:36 am

Industry and Idleness, Plate 11. The idle 'prentice executed at Tyburn.

eddie on Fri May 27, 2011 6:39 am

The Bench, 1758.

eddie on Fri May 27, 2011 6:42 am

WH's satirical engraving of the radical politician John Wilkes.

eddie on Fri May 27, 2011 6:46 am

Every now and then, WH took off his satirical hat:

The Shrimp Girl, 1740-5.

eddie on Fri May 27, 2011 6:48 am

WH's servants, mid-1750's.

eddie on Fri May 27, 2011 6:50 am

Painter and his Pug, 1745.

eddie on Fri May 27, 2011 6:53 am

The Hogarth roundabout, West London.

eddie on Fri May 27, 2011 6:55 am

WH's The Reward of Cruelty, Plate IV.

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