Gin Lane 2006 ; Awoman Addled Bydrinkand Lying Semi-Comatose in the Street. No,Not a Depraved Image Portrayed by Hogarth,but the Scene in the Same Street On a Typical Thursday Night in Modern Britain
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A WOMAN slumps on a flight of urine-stained steps, her grazed and ulcerated legs stretched out before her. Her ripped dress gapes wide, her underwear is gone and her breasts flop out unappetisingly.
Grinning moronically as she fumbles with her snuff box, she is oblivious as her baby falls from her lap to its death in the open sewer below. Or that the man lying at her feet, still cradling a bottle of gin, is also dead.See the full content of this document
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Gin Lane 2006 ; Awoman Addled Bydrinkand Lying Semi-Comatose in the Street. No,Not a Depraved Image Portrayed by Hogarth,but the Scene in the Same Street On a Typical Thursday Night in Modern Britain
Behind her, a drunken rabble screams, swears and throws punches and glasses at one another, corpses are laden into makeshift coffins, a man hangs from a noose. Women feed their children gin as others urinate in the street.
William Hogarth's 1751 engraving Gin Lane - perhaps the most effective pictorial satire ever - depicts London in the middle of the Gin Craze: a time of alcohol-fuelled rioting, violence, dissolution and crime. Dirt cheap and readily available, gin was embraced by men, women and chi...See the full content of this document
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