Sujet

Mock funeral procession in St Giles, London, 1751. Artist: Anon

Légende

Mock funeral procession in St Giles, London, 1751. 'To those melancholly sufferers (by a late severe act) the distillers, this plate is most humbly inscribed by a lover of trade, the funeral procession of Madam Geneva'. A satirical cartoon relating to the Gin Act of 1751.

Date

1751

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/London Metropolitan Archives

Notre référence

HRM19A99_026

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

20,0Mo (1,3Mo) / 26,0cm x 19,3cm / 3066 x 2278 (300dpi)

Mots clés

road London England drink female women woman people male man men street politics country law guy British alcohol English lane death avenue Parliament poor poverty mock location century procession Britain drunk lady concept drunkenness legislation B&W alcoholism gin cartoon MONOCHROME funeral black & white black and white B W 18th century Eighteenth Century Guildhall Library & Art Gallery act of parliament TGN Gin Act 1751 satire engraving Anon Anonymous