[A satire on gin-drinking] [graphic].

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Title: [A satire on gin-drinking] [graphic].
Alternative Title: Gin-retailers (if there's any) who can by a licence get a penny ...
Contributor: Bowles, John, 1701-1779.
Toms, W. H. approximately 1700-approximately 1750.
Heemskerck, Egbert van, 1634 or 1635-1704, artist.
Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, publisher.
Published / Created: [1766?]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: Robert Sayer?
Abstract: A satire on gin drinking: In a cellar distillery with a large cask a group of male figures with the heads of monkeys and women with heads of cats are drinking heavily with some vomiting
Description: Title from description in the British Museum catalogue for the original version of the print.
Original print was etched by W.H. Toms after a design by Egbert van Heemskerck II.
Reversed copy of a print published ca. 1730. Publication information for this later version based on an adverstisement of the series in Robert Sayer's catalog for 1766; see no. 1858 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2.
Publisher alternatively identified as John Bowles; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1988,0514.29
Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: The gin-retailers (if there's any) who can by a licence get a penny, are those, who in such manner use it, as if their study was t'abuse it ...
Plate numbered '8' in lower left corner. Plate number indicates that it may be one of a series of reissues of Egbert van Heemskerck the Younger's satires of people with animal heads, published in the 1760s.
1 print : etching ; plate mark 29 x 24.7 cm, on sheet 41.3 x 30.3 cm.
Printed on wove paper; hand-colored. Number '8' mostly erased from sheet.
Provenance: Grosvenor Prints; November 2022.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 28.7 x 25 cm, on sheet 34 x 29 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English