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The gin-retailers, (if there's any) who can by a licence get a penny, are those, who in such manner use it, as if their study was, t'abuse it: who rules and orders never mind, whose shops you may at midnight find throng'd, as with maggots in a cheese, with punks & bunters -- such as these
1730
Item Summary
Descriptive Information
- Title
- The gin-retailers, (if there's any) who can by a licence get a penny, are those, who in such manner use it, as if their study was, t'abuse it: who rules and orders never mind, whose shops you may at midnight find throng'd, as with maggots in a cheese, with punks & bunters -- such as these
- Call Number
- E East 44/GC070/Box 04/Normal/18th c. GA 2024.01236
- Identifier
- ark:/88435/dcn583z7790
- Publisher
- [London : [s.n.], n.d. [ca. 1730?]
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Date Created
- 1730
- Extent
- 1 item ; sheet 47.8 x 35.3 cm.
- References
- See BM 1858 for similar print with different text
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Medium: Etchings, Engravings, Hand coloring
- Depiction: Caricature regarding alcoholism. Distillery with figures drinking gin; several figures are getting sick from the alcohol; all of the figures have animal heads and human hands.
- Numbered in plate, lower left: "8".
- Unsigned.
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 2
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Omega Project
- Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
- IIIF Manifest URL
-
https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/e29e0bfa-362f-4437-9555-a6ab5d7ca6c2/manifest