Beer Street Size:L: 100 x 80cm Nausicaa had been washing clothes

Nausicaa had been washing clothes in the river with her maids

containing Sheriff Wood

Also showing figures walking through the graveyard

Church of St Nicholas

including a man and boy herding cattle

Beer Street Size:L: 100 x 80cm Nausicaa had been washing clothes'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