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St. Giles (London, England)

Images

  • A poor London street strewn with hopeless drunkards and lined with gin shops and a flourishing pawnbroker. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.
  • A lower class young woman; representing the St Giles's area of London. Stippple engraving by F. Bartolozzi, 1783, after J.H. Benwell.
  • A procession of publicans and a beggar following the coffin of Madam Geneva; attacking the Act preventing distillers from retailing or selling gin to unlicensed premises. Engraving, 1751.
  • Water tank in St. Giles in the Fields, London. Wood engraving, 1858.
  • Public baths and wash-houses for the adjacent parishes of Saint Giles-in-the-Fields and St George Bloomsbury, London: elevation. Wood engraving, 1853.
  • A street scene in which a dog is maltreated; a young man intervenes by offering his food to the miscreants. Engraving by William Hogarth, 1751.
  • A seventeenth-century bath-house, or bagnio, at St. Giles, London. Wood engraving.
  • A poor London street strewn with hopeless drunkards and lined with gin shops and a flourishing pawnbroker. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.
  • Public baths and wash-houses for the adjacent parishes of Saint Giles-in-the-Fields and St George Bloomsbury, London: elevation. Wood engraving, 1853.
  • A drunken woman standing in the street in St Giles's, London. Coloured etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.
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Catalogue

    • Books
    • Online

    [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District].

    St. Giles (London, England). District Council. | Date: [1895]
    • Books
    • Online

    [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District].

    St. Giles (London, England). District Council. | Date: [1892]
    • Pictures

    Public baths and wash-houses for the adjacent parishes of Saint Giles-in-the-Fields and St George Bloomsbury, London: elevation. Wood engraving, 1853.

    | Date: [1853] | Reference: 35051i
    • Books
    • Online

    [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District].

    St. Giles (London, England). District Council. | Date: 1866
    • Pictures

    A poor London street strewn with hopeless drunkards and lined with gin shops and a flourishing pawnbroker. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.

    Hogarth, William, 1697-1764. | Date: publish'd according to Act of Parliamt. 1 February 1751 | Reference: 26961i
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