print; satirical print

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Object Type: print; satirical print
Museum number: Cc,2.165
Title: Object: Beer Street
Description: 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
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School/style
Production date: 1751
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique: engraving; etching
Dimensions: Height: 382 millimetres; Width: 324 millimetres
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Curator's comments: The print was published as a pair to 'Gin Lane' in February 1751 (New Style)
Bibliographic references: Paulson 1989 / Hogarth's Graphic Works: third edition (185.III); Paulson 1965/70 / Hogarth's graphic works: first complete edition (185.III); BM Satires / Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (3126)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: satire; eating/drinking; butcher; street-trader; labourer/manual worker; tailor; painter/decorator; tavern/inn; money-lender; builder/bricklayer
Associated places: Topographic representation of: London
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1827 (before)
Acquisition notes: See comment on S,2.1.
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: Cc,2.165

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