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'Beer Street', 1751. Artist: William Hogarth
'Beer Street', 1751. Working people enjoying a tankard of beer outside the Barley Mow public house. The figures include two women with baskets of fish and a butcher holding a joint of meat, whilst above him an artist paints the inn sign. Fourth and final state of the plate. 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. Beer inspires artists and refreshes tradesmen and labourers. It can be drunk safely on rooftops. The newfangled foreign spirit gin, however, inspires violence and careless inebriation.
Unique Identifier
AR991376
Type
Image
Purpose
Public
Size
3750px × 4654px
Photo Credit
HIP / Art Resource, NY
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18th century
Alcohol
aquatic life
ART
artist
ARTS
Avenue
B&W
B/W
Beer
Black & White
Black and white
building
BUILDINGS
Butcher
concept
drink
drunk
DRUNKENNESS
eighteenth century
England
Engraving
Female
Fish
fish seller
Food
Guildhall Library & Art Gallery
Hogarth
Inn
Inn Sign
JOB
Joy
LADY
LANE
Literature
LOCATION
London
Male
Man
Meat
Men
METAPHOR
Monochrome
OCCUPATION
painting a picture
Painting, Medium
pawn shop
PAWNBROKER
People
Poetry
PROFESSION
Pub
PUBLIC HOUSE
Road
Satire
Shop
Shopping
SHOPS
sign of the times
street life
street seller
street trader
Tavern
TGN
W Hogarth
WILLIAM
WILLIAM HOGARTH
William Hogarth;Hogarth
William;W Hogarth
Woman
Women