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Gin

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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.
  • A poor London street strewn with hopeless drunkards and lined with gin shops and a flourishing pawnbroker. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.
  • A gin palace as a "temple of Juniper", with other scenes illustrating puns. Lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1834.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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Catalogue

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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
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    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 1884 | Reference: 627431i
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    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
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    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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    Specification of Frederick Grindlay Howard Woodward : medicine for the cure of dropsy.

    Woodward, Frederick Grindlay Howard. | Date: 1857
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