Gin Lane buttons the men wear dinner-jackets

the men wear dinner-jackets

with two figures and the Palace of Westminster in the background

Man in 17th century dress holding a chisel

A meeting of radical reformers presided over by Henry Hunt on July 21st 1819

Gin Lane buttons the men wear dinner-jackets'Gin Lane', 1751. The scene is the St Giles slums. A child falls to its death from the arms of its drunk mother who sits with ulcerated legs. A skeletal figure holds an empty glass. Goods are being pawned in order to buy gin, a baby is being fed with gin, a corpse is put into a coffin in the background. The pawnbroker, distiller and undertaker are the only well off and successful people in the neighbourhood. Third of four states of plate. This print