Sujet

Beer Street, 1 February 1751. Creator: William Hogarth.

Légende

Beer Street, 1 February 1751. "Beer, happy Produce of our Isle, Can sinewy Strength impart, And wearied with Fatigue and Toil Can cheer each manly Heart. Labour and Art upheld by Thee Successfully advance, We quaff Thy balmy Juice with Glee And Water leave to France. Genius of Health, thy grateful Taste Rivals the Cup of Jove, And warms each English generous Breast With Liberty and Love!" This print was published in support of a campaign directed against gin-drinking among London's poor. Consumption of cheap spirits by the poor had soared in the early eighteenth century, with dire social consequences. Beer Street celebrates the virtues of the mildly intoxicating traditional national drink.

Date

1751

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Royal Academy of Arts

Notre référence

HRM25A05_040

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

68,7Mo (8,2Mo) / 38,1cm x 45,2cm / 4495 x 5343 (300dpi)

Mots clés

transport transportation building London England food drink female women woman people male job man men fish shopping shop shops happiness happy arts painting pipe pub art books book guy occupation scaffold scaffolding British alcohol beer public house humour litter smoking artist seafood meat inn location century Britain profession mug print drunk overweight literature concept butcher fat drunkenness United Kingdom B&W tankard tavern liquor metaphor parody drunken engraved engraving street vendor street seller road Transport Drinking vessel beer mug poem poetry black & white black and white B W tobacco pipe Inn Sign 18th century Eighteenth Century etched satire satirical clay pipe etching fish seller kit bag painting a picture palanquin pawn shop pawnbroker sedan chair sign of the times street life street trader TGN street etching satire engraving Pawnshop William Hogarth W Hogarth Hogarth William Clay Pipes tankards pawnbroker's Royal Academy of Arts line of beauty