Sign Gallery

Hogarth, Gin Lane

Hogarth, Gin Lane. A political print supporting a ministerial measure against the unlimited sale of gin (which later became the Gin Act). A scene of London life is depicted in which the pawnbrokers, gin cellar and distillery are now flourishing, and people's lives are being destroyed by their addiction to gin, with examples of infanticide, starvation, madness, decay and suicide

© Mary Evans Picture Library 2015 - https://copyrighthub.org/s0/hub1/creation/maryevans/MaryEvansPictureID/10007282

The Thief - painting by Antonio Maria Fabres y Costa

Postcard image after a painting by Antonio Maria Fabres y Costa La Ladrona ("The Thief") in the los Tiros art gallery in Granada, Spain. Painted in about 1900, showing a female criminal standing in the street, shackled to the wall by her neck and wrists - displayed as a warning to others. Date: circa 1900

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

View down Montpelier Vale, Blackheath Village, London

A superb postcard view down Montpelier Vale, Blackheath Village, London - the detial is incredible, with individual shops identifiable, the pavements as busy (as they ever are!) and the impressive form of the Victorian schoolhouse on Independence Road, now a Montessori Centre and Private Hospital. Date: circa 1909

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection