Beer Street Product:Fine art poster View of Butler's Almshouses

View of Butler's Almshouses

View with boats and crew on Regent's Canal and figures on the dockside

The Welsh Bard

people sit inside watching pedestrians pass in the street

Beer Street Product:Fine art poster View of Butler's Almshouses'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