Similarities Between Beer Street And Gin Lane Hogarth

Beer Street and Gin Lane

Beer Street and Gin Lane Hogarth’s one of the best known his satirical paintings.
He designed and published them as part of a campaign in support of the government’s Gin Act, in an attempt to restrain the consumption of cheap gin.
In these paintings, Hogarth compares the joys of beer drinking with the gin which caused the complete destruction of the people in town that he warns unpleasant consequences of alcoholism.
Beer Street shows a happy city drinking the 'good' beverage of English beer, People are shown as healthy, happy and prosperous while in Gin Lane they are unhealthy, lazy and careless.

Gin Lane addresses a very real problem in mid eighteenth century England, the abuse of gin by the working classes