קובץ:The Lamentable Fall of Madam Geneva Sepr 29 1736 (BM 1868,0808.3581).jpg

English: Satire on gin and the Act of 1736 taxing retail sales. A crowded street where a platform has been raised on which lies "Madam Geneva", in a drunken stupor her clothes in dissaray, she holds a glass in one hand and a bottle in the other and on either side stand a weeping woman holding a broadside ballad lamenting that "This Act will starve us all" and a man waving a gin bottle and holding the "2nd Part" of the ballad celebrating gin drinking. In the foreground, is a crowd of gin drinkers, mostly drunk: a tinker pushing his barrow with a large bellows accompanied by a chimney boy; a vomiting woman is supported by another woman who slaps her on the back and a man who offers a bottle of "A Cure for the Cholick"; a barefoot ballad-seller with a basket on her arm holding a child; a woman pleading with a watchman holding a staff; a fishwife with a basket of fish on her head and an oyster-knife at her waist; a bearded, one-legged man seated on the ground holding up "A Subscription for 2 Gallons"; a street-sweeper with a spade and bucket holding a "Petition". In the background, on the left, is a public house, with the sign of a gin still obscured by the lettering, "No more Gin by retail Parsons Entire Butt" (a reference to the beer brewed by Humphrey Parsons) and a chequerboard above the door, outside which a number of jolly men raise tankards beside a dray loaded with barrels; on the right, is another public house, with the sign of a child Bacchus astride a barrel and a bunch of grapes, outside which a group of merry wine-drinkers, one sitting on a barrel, raise a standard lettterd, "Vivitur Baccho melius" and decorated with wine flasks, a glass and a bunch of grapes. Three columns of verse beneath with a reference to Joseph Jekyll who sponsored the Act. 1736
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