https://emuseum.cornell.edu/internal/media/dispatcher/69627/fullGin Lane1751[com.gallerysystems.emuseum.core.entities.RecordXPerson@184bf]com.gallerysystems.emuseum.core.entities.RecordXPerson@184bfEtching and engraving on medium weight laid paperWilliam Hogarth London 1712–1784 London Gin Lane 1751 Etching and engraving Plate: 15 5/16 x 12 5/8 inches (38.9 x 32.1 cm) Sheet: 22 x 17 5/8 inches (55.9 x 44.8 cm) Paulson 186 iii/iv Membership Purchase Fund 76.103.066 This pair of well-known views constitutes a realistic if mostly imaginary London stage set for representing the moral contrast between an honest and life-enhancing local product—beer—and the evils associated with a much stronger and dangerously appealing import—gin. In Gin Lane, the baby falling to its death from the lap of its inebriated mother is echoed in the city itself by a building that is falling down in the center background. Gin is killing the city no less than its people. Stuart M. Blumincom.gallerysystems.emuseum.core.entities.Classification@5ehttps://emuseum.cornell.edu/objects/31534/rdf