Who made “Beer Street”?

“Beer Street” was made by William Hogarth in 1751. Where to see it: Yale Center for British Art.

Rococo · Engraving

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William Hogarth: satirical series of moral tales, crowded scenes full of detail, comic types and London vice.

William Hogarth (10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, engraver, cartoonist, and satirist. His work ranges from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects", and he is perhaps best known for his series A Harlot's Progress, A Rake's Progress and Marriage A-la-Mode. Wikipedia

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More by William Hogarth

“A Harlot's Progress”, 1732
“Marriage à-la-mode”, 1743
“Beer Street and Gin Lane”, 1751
“A Rake's Progress”, 1732
“Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn”, 1738
“The Shrimp Girl”, 1743
“The Graham Children”, 1742
“Marriage A-la-Mode: 2. The Tête à Tête”, 1743