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Title:

Gin Lane

Object 1

Collection Title:

Baillieu Library - Poynton Collection

Accession Number:

1959.2607.000.000

Creator:

Hogarth, William

Place of birth:

England

Creation Date:

1751

Object Category:

prints

Medium:

etching, engraving

Technique:

intaglio

State:

unknown state

Dimensions:

Type	Height	Width	Depth	Diameter	Unit (Lengths)	Weight	Unit (Weight)
image	35.3	30.2			cm
sheet (irregular)	37.7	31.3			cm

Inscription:

signed l.l.corner "Design'd by W. Hogarth."; printed l.c: "Publish'd according to Act of Parliamt Feb. 1. 1751."

Other Inscriptions:

inscribed t.c., printed: "GIN LANE"; inscribed l.r.corner, printed: "Price Id [illegible]"; l.l.corner, printed: "Gin cursed Fiend, with Fury fraught,/Makes human Race a Prey;/ It enters by a deadly Draught,/ And steals our Life away."; bot. c., printed: "Virtue and Truth, driv'n to Despair,/ It's Rage compells to fly,/ But cherishes, with hellish Care,/ Theft, Murder, Perjury"; l.r.corner, printed: "Damn'd Cup! that on the Vitals preys,/That liquid Fire contains/ Which Madness to the Heart conveys,/ And rolls it thro' the Veins."; l.l., printed: "Drink for a penny/ Dead drunk for two pence/ Clean Straw for nothing"; l.l., printed: "GIN ROYAL"; printed l.r. image: "The downfall of M.dme Gin"; u.l., printed: "S. GRIPE PAWN BROKERS"; u.r., printed: "KILMAN DISTILER."

Catalogue Raisonne:

Paulson 1989 186.II; Paulson 1965/70 186.II

Credit Line:

Baillieu Library Print Collection, the University of Melbourne. Gift of Dr J. Orde Poynton 1959.

Narratives:

William Hogarth (1697 - 1764)

Hogarth in the Baillieu: precedents and projections a study of the Hogarth print collection of the University of Melbourne Bailleu Library

History of the Virtual Print Room print collection