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Contrasts in drinking of alcoholic beverages: a tavern from 1553 is contrasted with a gin-palace of 1847, temperance with drunkenness, and luxury with poverty. Lithograph by Luke Limner (John Leighton).
Limner, Luke, 1822-1912.Date: [1847]Reference: 35846i- Pictures
Men of various nationalities surround a gentleman dressed in striped breeches holding a cane, as another man wearing a fez snoozes beside a glazed door marked 'conference'. Colour lithograph by Judd & Co. after Tom Merry, 1884.
Merry, Tom, 1852-1902.Date: June 7 1884Reference: 627431i- Pictures
People drinking in a gin palace; people consuming alcoholic drinks falling from a pile of barrels of liquor likened to the upas-tree. Line block (?) after G. Cruikshank, 1842.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 26293i- 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 1751Reference: 26961i- Books
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The deposing and death of Queen Gin, with the ruin of the Duke of Rum, Marquee de Nantz, and the Lord Sugarcane, &c. An heroic comi-tragical farce. Written by Jack Juniper, a Distiller's Apprentice, Just-Turn'd Poet. As it is Acted at the New Theatre in the Haymarket.
Juniper, Jack.Date: [1736]