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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]- Books
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A short history of the gin act: or, an impartial account of the conduct of some of those who have been intrusted with the execution of it. To which is annex'd, a relation of the hardships and sufferings of several persons who have been convicted by the unjustifiable Artifices, as well as by the Perjuries and Villanies of Informers.
Date: [1738]- Books
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Specification of Frederick Grindlay Howard Woodward : medicine for the cure of dropsy.
Woodward, Frederick Grindlay Howard.Date: 1857- Pictures
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Three women in a gin shop divert the landlady's attention while a match boy steals her money. Mezzotint, c. 1765.
Date: 1765Reference: 26888i- Pictures
A lank old man at a bar asks a plump barmaid for a glass of gin (left); a man touches his forelock to a man wearing a uniform (right). Etching.
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A gin palace as a "temple of Juniper", with other scenes illustrating puns. Lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1834.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852.Date: 14 Feb 1834Reference: 640597iPart of: Everybody's album & caricature magazine- Pictures
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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.
Date: 29 September 1751Reference: 25932i- Pictures
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A busy gin palace bar with customers buying drinks. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, c. 1842.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: [1842]Reference: 26470iPart of: The Drunkard- Books
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Gin, the skeleton spirit and demon of depravity!! A voice from the poison palaces!!! : addressed to the two Houses of the British legislature / by the author of 'The golden rules of life','Every body's friend', 'A book for the whole world', &c. &c.
Date: [1835?]- Pictures
A procession of publicans and a beggar following the coffin of Madam Geneva; attacking the Act preventing distillers from retailing or selling gin on unlicensed premises. Copper engraving plate, 1751.
Date: 1751Reference: 578558i- Books
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The trial of the spirits: or, some considerations upon the pernicious consequences of the gin-trade to Great-Britain (As it is Destructive of the Health and Lives of His Majesty's Subjects; and as it affects the Trade, Manufactures and Landed Interest of this Island) Humbly offer'd to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole, And to the Right Honourable Sir Joseph Jekyll. By a lover of mankind.
Philanthropos.Date: MDCCXXXVI. [1736]- Books
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The tavern scuffle: or, the club in an uproar ; occasion'd by a hot dispute, between Mr. Swell-Gut, a Brewer, And and Mr. Scorch-Gut, a Distiller, concerning Geneva, the reigning liquior now in vogue among the common People. Plainly shewing the ill Effects arising from the Use of that Liquor, both in Respect to the Body of Man in Particular, and the publick Welfare in General. With the comical Observations and Opinions of Toby Funk the Tobacconist, Peter Dash the Vintner, Benjamin Bolus the Apothecary, Moderator; and Mr. Oliver Hum-Drum, Chairman. The whole Dispute committed to Writing, with all imaginable Justice, and submitted to the Judgment of the Publick. By Saynought Slyboots, Secretary.
Slyboots, Saynought.Date: [1726]- Pictures
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A lank old man at a bar asks a plump barmaid for a glass of gin. Coloured etching, c. 1830.
Date: 1830Reference: 26930i- Pictures
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A gin shop: an elegant young woman is selling gin to a group of paupers who are standing in a mantrap; the walls decorated with coffins; Death enters the room dressed as a nightwatchman. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1829.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: 1 November 1829Reference: 578909iPart of: Scraps and sketches depicting scenes of British life.- Pictures
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A drunken man and woman lean against pillars leading to a giant distillery with attendant demon; miscellaneous characters round as border. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1833, after himself.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: 1833Reference: 26475i- Pictures
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West Indian sugar-growers making gin for the British market at the expense of Scottish grain farmers. Aquatint by Samuel de Wilde, 1808.
De Wilde, Samuel, 1751-1832.Date: [1 July 1808]Reference: 38477i