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Title:

Beer Street

Object 1

Collection Title:

Baillieu Library - Poynton Collection

Accession Number:

1959.2606.000.000

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	35.2	30			cm
sheet	38.3	31			cm

Inscription:

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

Other Inscriptions:

inscribed l. r. corner, printed: "Price 1 d."; l. l., printed: "Beer, happy Produce of our Isle/ Can sinewy Strength impart, /And wearied with Fatigue and Toil/ Can chear each manly Heart. "; lower c., printed: "Labour and Art upheld by Thee / Succesfully [sic.] advance, / We quaff Thy balmy Juice with Glee / And Water leave to France."; l. r., printed: "Genius of Health, thy grateful Taste / Rivals the Cup of Jove, / And warms each English generous Breast with Liberty and Love. "; l. l., printed [Text in newspaper]; l. r., printed [text on book spines]; c.r., printed: "N. PINCH PAWN BROKER. "[Top of door frame]; u. l., printed: [text on street sign]; top c., printed: "BEER STREET."

Catalogue Raisonne:

Paulson 1989 185.III; Paulson 1965/70 185.III

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