Hogarth is wrong: it's OK to drink the water
17 October 2021 - 00:00
William Hogarth, the artist and satirist, is famous for his Beer Street and Gin Lane prints. Apparently, these prints were Hogarth’s comment on the link between the contrasting poverty and prosperity of 18th-century England. The people of Beer Street were “healthy” while those of Gin Lane suffered from ill health and related, albeit avoidable, social ills...
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