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mansion and ending with the murder of the son by his wife's lover, and
the suicide of the daughter after her lover is hanged at Tyburn.
Industry and Idleness
In the twelve prints of
Industry and Idleness
(1747) Hogarth showed
the lives of two apprentices, one of whom is dedicated and hard working, the
other idle. The industrious apprentice becomes Sheriff and Lord Mayor of
London. The idle turns one to crime. In the end, he is executed at Tyburn. The
idle apprentice is sent to the gallows by the industrious apprentice himself.
This shows the work
ethic of Protestant England, where those who
work hard get rewarded, and those who do not end badly,
Beer Street and Gin Lane
Beer Street
and
Gin Lane
(1751) was his
warning on alcoholism. They were
two engravings designed to be seen side by side. Hogarth engraved
Beer
Street
to show a happy city drinking the 'good' beverage of English beer. On
the
other side was
Gin Lane
. This showed the effects of drinking gin which,
as a harder liquor, caused more problems for society.
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 of 1751.
Hogarth's friend, the magistrate Henry Fielding, may have got Hogarth to help
with propaganda for the Gin Act:
Beer Street
and
Gin Lane
were issued
shortly after Fielding's work
An Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase
of Robbers, and Related Writings
.
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