Beer Street Product:Fine art poster or No Resisting Temptation'

or No Resisting Temptation'

View of Butler's Almshouses

View of the Castle of Balem

Herds of cattle with horse-drawn carts and horse drawn carriages pass along the road

Elizabethan oak screen

Beer Street Product:Fine art poster or No Resisting Temptation''Beer Street', 1751. Working people enjoying a tankard of beer outside the Barley Mow public house. The figures include two women with baskets of fish and a butcher holding a joint of meat, whilst above him an artist paints the inn sign. Fourth and final state of the plate. This print was published in support of a campaign directed against gin drinking among London's poor. Consumption of cheap spirits by the poor had soared in the early eighteenth