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Hogarth's 'Gin Lane' and 'Beer Street'

Sascha Muldoon1

  • 1The Royal Free and University College Medical School, London, United Kingdom. s.muldoon@ucl.ac.uk

International Journal of Surgery (London, England)
|April 28, 2007
PubMed

The original intention of this paper was to draw on the link between art and medicine through the appreciation of a pair of prints created by Hogarth in 1750. This was done firstly, by viewing them as a direct health promotional campaign to curb alcoholism, and secondly, by studying Hogarth's use of the depiction of disease as a means to achieve this. However, in analysing his motivation another more permanent link, still resonant in today's society, was revealed--that between health and social structure.

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