Discuss how William Hogarth uses art as commentary in Gin Lane.
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The ideal answer should include:
1. Hogarth’s Gin Lane exposes the horrors of excessive drinking in eighteenth-century London.
2. The figure of a drunken woman dropping her child dominates the lower center of the print.
3. Hogarth references the deadly consequences of drinking by naming the gin shop “Kilman” and by portraying a cadaverous figure holding a cup and a figure of a hanging man.
4. He also encourages sobriety by depicting the pawn shop where people sell their goods to fund their drinking habit.
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