print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0822.1594
- Title
- Object: Beer Street
- Description
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A flourishing urban scene with well fed citizens; in the foreground, butchers, fish wives and a City of London porter hold large tankards of beer; a butcher lifts a joint of meat into the air with one hand; in the background, paviours repair the street, chairmen carry a stout lady, tailors sew in a well lit attic, builders work on the roof of a house clad with scaffolding, and a warehouseman hauls a barrel to an upper storey - all are drinking beer; poverty appears only in the ragged coat of the artist painting the tavern sign and, more particularly, in the collapsing house of "N Pinch Pawn Broker". 1751
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1751
- Dimensions
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Height: 378 millimetres
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Width: 323 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The print was published as a pair to 'Gin Lane' in February 1751 (New Style)
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
1996 Sep-Nov, York, Fairfax House, 'Come Drink the Bowl Dry'
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0822.1594
