Title

A young attractive woman is introduced to the 'pleasures' of gin drinking, c1810. Artist: Thomas Rowlandson

Caption

A young attractive woman is introduced to the 'pleasures' of gin drinking, c1810. A comparison is being made between the young lady on the right and the drunken old woman on the left who holds the hand of a ragged child. The suggestion is that this is how the young woman will turn out if she starts to drink gin.
Museum of London

Date

1810

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Museum of London

Reference

HRM19A83_005

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,4Mb (3,8Mb) / 12,4in x 15,8in / 3724 x 4733 (300dpi)

Keywords

animal building buildings drink glass female women woman people male child children young man men old aged pouring drinking pub dog guy alcohol public house color colour dress century drunk lady concept landlord issue drunkenness alcoholism gin dishevelled comparison tavern RAGGED Leering 19th century nineteenth century Museum of London satire Thomas Rowlandson Rowlandson Thomas satire