Gin Collection

Gin Lane (Beer Street and Gin Lane 2), 1751. Artist: Hogarth, William (1697-1764)
Gin Lane (Beer Street and Gin Lane 2), 1751. From a private collection

The Man with the Load of Mischief, 18th century, (1943). Creator: William Hogarth
The Man with the Load of Mischief, 18th century, (1943). A man with a chain and padlock round his neck, carrying a " load of mischief" : a woman holding a glass of gin rides on his back

Gin Lane, 1751. Artist: William Hogarth
Gin Lane, 1751.The scene is the St Giles slums. A child falls to its death from the arms of its drunk mother who sits with ulcerated legs. A skeletal figure holds an empty glass

Gin Lane, February 1, 1751. Creator: William Hogarth
Gin Lane, February 1, 1751

Victorian gin house, 19th century (late 19th or early 20th century)

Skittles at Faggen's. Scene from Fredman's Epistle 55 by Bellman, 1868. Creator: Peter Eskilson
Skittles at Faggen's. Scene from Fredman's Epistle 55 by Bellman, 1868. "Fredmans epistlar" (English: Fredman's Epistles)

A Man with a Gin Bottle, 1660-1680. Creator: Ary de Vois
A Man with a Gin Bottle, 1660-1680

The Gin Palace, c1900. Artist: George Cruikshank
The Gin Palace, c1900. An illustration for Hard Times by Charles Dickens. From Hard Times and Sketches by Boz, Volume XI, by Charles Dickens. [Blackwood, Le Bas & Co. London, c1900]

The spirit of London - Holloways London Gin, c1930s. Creator: Unknown
The spirit of London - Holloways London Gin, c1930s. Advertisement for a brand of gin. From a pack of corporate playing cards. [Reid Wright & Holloway (Distillers) Ltd. London and Glasgow]

Holland, 1 Guilder, from the series Coins of All Nations (N72, variation 1) for Duke brand cigarettes, 1889

Sir Jeffery Dunstan Presenting an Address from the Corporation of Garratt, December 30, 1788

Every Man Has His Hobby Horse, May 1, 1784. May 1, 1784. Creator: Thomas Rowlandson
Every Man Has His Hobby Horse, May 1, 1784

Rum Characters in a Shrubbery, November 1, 1808. November 1, 1808. Creator: Unknown
Rum Characters in a Shrubbery, November 1, 1808

St Giless Courtship, 1799. 1799. Creator: Thomas Rowlandson
St Giless Courtship, 1799

Forget & Forgive, or Honest Jack Shaking Hands with and Old Acquaintance, September 3, 1799

Funcking the Corsican, December 6, 1813. December 6, 1813. Creator: Thomas Rowlandson
Funcking the Corsican, December 6, 1813

Advertising hoardings on the wall of a building, Wandsworth, London, 1938
Advertising hoardings on the wall of a building, Nightingale Lane, Wandsworth, London, September 1938. The posters advertise Granada Clapham, Balham Picture House, Gordons Gin, Heinz

Mock funeral procession in St Giles, London, 1751. To those melancholly sufferers (by a late severe act) the distillers, this plate is most humbly inscribed by a lover of trade

The Gin Juggarnath or the Worship of the Great Spirit of the age!! …, 1835
The Gin Juggarnath or the Worship of the Great Spirit of the age!! - Its devotees destroy themselves - Its progress is marked with desolation, Misery and Crime, pub 1835 (hand coloured engraving)

Unable to obtain employment, they are driven by poverty into the streets to beg, and by this means they still supply the bottle. Plate IV of The Drunkards Chlldren) pub. 1848 (b/w engraving)

Archie Compston approaches: I Have No Use For A Club Without Booth s, c1935 (1935). Archibald Edward Wones Compston (1893-1962), English professional golfer

A word from Lord Northesk I Bank On Booths At Every Turn, c1935 (1935). David Ludovic George Hopetoun Carnegie, 11th Earl of Northesk (1901-1963), Scottish representative peer

Lady Oxford says It Is Popular To Be Liberal With Booths Gin, And Then The Party Will Be Top Of The Poll, c1935 (1935). Margaret Emma Alice ( Margot ) Asquith (nee Tennant)

Professor Low propounds: The Quality of Perfection Defies Analysis, But It Is Significant That It Is Present In Those Cocktails Which Contain Booths Gin, c1935 (1935)

Lady Mount Temple announces: I Want Good Mixers At My Parties, And So I Always Insist On Mixing Them With Booth s, c1935 (1935). Muriel Emily Ashley (nee Spencer), Lady Mount Temple (circa 1881-1954)

Lord Westmorland asserts: A Cocktail Without Booths Is A Cocktail Under A Handcap, c1935 (1935). From An Anthology Of Cocktails Together With Selected Observations. [Dorland Advertising Ltd. c1935]

Cocktail recipes, c1935 (1935). Cocktail recipes from: Eddie of the London Casino, Laurie of the Carlton and Billy of the Cafe Royal

Learn now of the select and prodigal places wherein Booths - the one matured Gin - transforms each occasion into festivity and spreads its beneficent spell o er all who have hearts to feel

Pray silence for Colin Symons (Toastmaster): Every Cocktail Containing Booths Gin Is A Speech In Its Favour, c1935 (1935). From An Anthology Of Cocktails Together With Selected Observations

Interviewed in camera: Film Producer Basil Dean reveals Star Booths Gin In Your Cocktails And You ll Always Produce A Success, c1935 (1935)

Frances Day in person: Booths Gin Brings Out The Best In Any Company, c1935 (1935). Frances Day (real name Frances Victoria Schenck, (1908-1984), American actress and singer

Tom Walls: Would That The Pedigree Of A Horse Were As Reliable A Guide As The Name Of Booths On A Bottle Of Gin, c1935 (1935)

Says Lady Betty Bourke to her friends: Anyone Who Is A Good Mixer Knows The Value of Booths Gun i
Says Lady Betty Bourke to her friends: Anyone Who Is A Good Mixer Knows The Value of Booths Gin in a Cocktail, c1935 (1935). From An Anthology Of Cocktails Together With Selected Observations

A cameo by Frank Dobson Booths Has The Magic of Pygmalion. It Makes Even Some Statues Come To Life, c1935 (1935). Frank Owen Dobson RA (1886-1963), British artist and sculptor

Beverley Nichols declares Booths Never Leads You Up The Garden Path, c1935 (1935). John Beverley Nichols (1898-1983), author, playwright, journalist, composer, and public speaker

C. W. A. Scott talks to London: If You Are A Fly-By-Night, Take Off With Booth s, c1935 (1935)
C.W.A. Scott talks to London: If You Are A Fly-By-Night, Take Off With Booth s, c1935 (1935). Flight Lieutenant Charles William Anderson Scott, (1903-1946), English aviator

Your call, Miss Arnaud A Cocktail With Booth s? - Ah Yes! Without Booth s?? Arnaud. c1935 (1935)
Your call, Miss Arnaud A Cocktail With Booth s? - Ah Yes! Without Booth s? Arnaud. c1935 (1935). Yvonne Arnaud (1890-1958), French pianist, singer and actress

Race-track reflection by Hon. Brian Lewis A Party Without Booths Is Like A Car Without Wheels, c1935 (1935). Brian Edmund Lewis, 2nd Baron Essendon (1903-1978), also known as Bug

Recital by Mark Hambourg Whatever The Hallmark Of Genius May Be, Booths Is The Hallmark of Gin, c1935 (1935). Mark Hambourg (1879-1960), Russian-British concert pianist

Curtain call for Sybil Thorndike A Cocktail In Which Booths Plays A Leading Part Receives An Enthusiastic Reception From The Most Captious Critics, c1935 (1935)

Ivor Novello confesses: It Takes Me A Long Time To Compose A Score, But It Only Takes Booths Two Minutes To Compose A Quarrel, 1935 (1935)

Notes by William Hogarth, c1751. Artist: William Hogarth
Notes by William Hogarth, c1751. Notes on his intentions in designing the prints of Beer Street of Gin Lane and of The Four Stages of Cruelty, published in 1751

Seasonable Advice - Put by for a Frosty Day, 1861. Mr Punch encourages a labourer to join the queue of fellow workers at the Post Office rather than spend his money on drink

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