Title from item.
12 lines of verse by Rev. James Townley engraved in 3 columns below image: Beer, happy Produce of our Isle ... With Liberty and Love.
"Publish'd according to Act of Parliament Feb.1.1751 ... Price 1s".
Companion print to Hogarth's "Gin Lane".
Print forms part of an album (PML 146852) that is one of three containing the collected works of William Hogarth; evidently comprised of prints reissued by the artist's widow and compiled no earlier than 1781 (see PML 146851-53).
Inscribed in pen at lower right: JT.
Print shows a flourishing urban scene with well fed citizens; in the foreground, butchers, fish wives and a City of London porter hold large tankards of beer; a butcher lifts a joint of meat into the air with one hand; in the background, pavers repair the street, chairmen carry a stout lady, tailors sew in a well lit attic, builders work on the roof of a house clad with scaffolding, and a warehouseman hauls a barrel to an upper storey - all are drinking beer; poverty appears only in the ragged coat of the artist painting the tavern sign and, more particularly, in the collapsing house of "N Pinch Pawn Broker".