VTG William Hogarth Copper Etched Art \"Beer Street\" happy people drinking beer
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VTG William Hogarth Copper Etched Art \"Beer Street\" happy people drinking beer:
$39.00
Unusual copper etching is highly reflective and hard to photgraph! The picture measures approx
10 1/2\" w x 13\"l. Frame needs some repair to
secure it. Measures 13\" w x 15\"w.
William Hogarth (1697–1764) was an English painter, engraver, print maker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist who has been credited with pioneering western sequential art. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called \"modern moral subjects\".
Hogarth lived in an age when artwork became increasingly commercialized and viewed in shop windows, taverns and public buildings and sold in print shops and in the very vigorous satirical medium of the English broadsheet. Knowledge of his work is so pervasive that satirical political illustrations in this style are often referred to as \"Hogarthian\".
Hogarth engraved Beer Street to show a happy city drinking the \'good\' beverage of English beer, versus Gin Lane which showed the effects of drinking gin which, as a harder liquor, caused more problems for society.
Among his most important prints were his pictorial warnings of the unpleasant consequences of alcoholism in Beer Street and Gin Lane.
Designed to be viewed alongside each other, they depict the evils of the consumption of gin as contrasted to the merits of drinking beer.
People are shown as healthy, happy and prosperous in Beer Street, while in Gin Lane they are scrawny, lazy and careless. The woman at the front of Gin Lane who lets her baby fall to its death, echoes the tale of Judith Dufour who strangled her baby so she could sell its clothes for gin money. The prints were published in support of what would become the Gin Act of1751.
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VTG William Hogarth Copper Etched Art \"Beer Street\" happy people drinking beer:
$39.00