Beer Street Size:L: 100 x 80cm Two women and a man

Two women and a man wearing full evening dress

Church of St Nicholas

built with money from the Portuguese government

View of the residence of Queen Caroline in Portman Street

'Fortune Telling'

Beer Street Size:L: 100 x 80cm Two women and a man'Beer Street', 1751. Working people enjoying a tankard of beer outside the Barley Mow public house. The figures include two women with baskets of fish and a butcher holding a joint of meat, whilst above him an artist paints the inn sign. Fourth and final state of the plate. This print was published in support of a campaign directed against gin drinking among London's poor. Consumption of cheap spirits by the poor had soared in the early eighteenth