Search

Pictures
Online
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.
George CruikshankDate: [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.
William HogarthDate: publish'd according to Act of Parliamt. 1 February 1751Reference: 26961i
E-books
Online
Further considerations humbly offered in support of the proposition, that the duties to be paid by the corn-distillers will not, in any degree, prevent the common and excessive use of gin.
Date: [1760?]
E-books
Online
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]
Books
Online
Specification of Frederick Grindlay Howard Woodward : medicine for the cure of dropsy.
Woodward, Frederick Grindlay Howard.Date: 1857
Pictures
Online
Three women in a gin shop divert the landlady's attention while a match boy steals her money. Mezzotint, c. 1765.
Date: 1765Reference: 26888i
Books
Kranewitt : Untersuchungen zu den altdeutschen Übersetzungen des nordischen Wacholderbeertraktats / Sabine Kurschat-Fellinger.
Kurschat-Fellinger, Sabine, 1950-Date: 1983
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.
Reference: 35866i
Pictures
A gin palace as a "temple of Juniper", with other scenes illustrating puns. Lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1834.
Charles Jameson GrantDate: 14 Feb 1834Reference: 640597i
E-books
Online
A proper reply to a scandalous libel, intituled, The trial of the spirits : in a letter to the author.
T. S., active 18th century.Date: [1736?]
Pictures
Online
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
Online
A busy gin palace bar with customers buying drinks. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, c. 1842.
George CruikshankDate: [1842]Reference: 26470i
Books
Online
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?]
Books
Craze : gin and debauchery in an age of reason / Jessica Warner.
Jessica WarnerDate: 2003
Books
The school of sophisticated drinking : an intoxicating history of seven spirits / Kerstin Ehmer & Beate Hindermann ; foreword by Kevin Brauch ; with illustrations by Angela Dwyer ; [translated by] Jamie McIntosh.
Ehmer, Kerstin, 1965-Date: 2015
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
The much-lamented death of Madam Geneva : the eighteenth-century gin craze / Patrick Dillon.
Patrick DillonDate: 2002
Books
Dedalus book of gin / Richard Barnett.
Barnett, RichardDate: 2011
E-books
Online
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, JackDate: [1736]
Student dissertations
Putting the genie back into the bottle : gin, government & health in eighteenth century London / Christopher Andrews.
Andrews, ChristopherDate: 2003
E-books
Online
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]
E-books
Online
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.
PhilanthroposDate: MDCCXXXVI. [1736]
Pictures
Online
A lank old man at a bar asks a plump barmaid for a glass of gin. Coloured etching, c. 1830.
Date: 1830Reference: 26930i

Works search

Active filters:

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).

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.

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.

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

Further considerations humbly offered in support of the proposition, that the duties to be paid by the corn-distillers will not, in any degree, prevent the common and excessive use of gin.

Specification of Frederick Grindlay Howard Woodward : medicine for the cure of dropsy.

Three women in a gin shop divert the landlady's attention while a match boy steals her money. Mezzotint, c. 1765.

Kranewitt : Untersuchungen zu den altdeutschen Übersetzungen des nordischen Wacholderbeertraktats / Sabine Kurschat-Fellinger.

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.

A gin palace as a "temple of Juniper", with other scenes illustrating puns. Lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1834.

A proper reply to a scandalous libel, intituled, The trial of the spirits : in a letter to the author.

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 busy gin palace bar with customers buying drinks. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, c. 1842.

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.

Craze : gin and debauchery in an age of reason / Jessica Warner.

The school of sophisticated drinking : an intoxicating history of seven spirits / Kerstin Ehmer & Beate Hindermann ; foreword by Kevin Brauch ; with illustrations by Angela Dwyer ; [translated by] Jamie McIntosh.

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.

The much-lamented death of Madam Geneva : the eighteenth-century gin craze / Patrick Dillon.

Dedalus book of gin / Richard Barnett.

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.

Putting the genie back into the bottle : gin, government & health in eighteenth century London / Christopher Andrews.

A lank old man at a bar asks a plump barmaid for a glass of gin. Coloured etching, c. 1830.