Beer Street fine art 'The Witch - a study'

'The Witch - a study'

View of the new London Bridge from the pool of the River Thames

A woman in white with long dark hair holds a flower

The Good Intent Flour Mill

Its greatest transformation

Beer Street fine art 'The Witch - a study''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