A procession of publicans and a beggar following the coffin of Madam Geneva; attacking the Act preventing distillers from retailing or selling gin on unlicensed premises. Copper engraving plate, 1751.

London (at the Black Horse in Cornhill) : John Bowles & Son, 1751.

1 printing plate : engraved copper ; copper 27.1 x 37 cm

The funeral procession of Madam Geneva Sep.r 29.1751 To those melancholly sufferers (by a late severe Act) the distillers this plate is most humbly inscrib'd by a lover of trade. ... Lettering continues with thirty lines of verse below the image describing the scene Lettering on an inn sign reads "gin no more by retale" and above the inn door reads "geneva, brandy, rum, arrack, ca" Lettering on the coffin pall reads "P. P.", probably for Parish Pall, and on the burial ground wall reads "S G F" i.e. St. Giles-in-the-Fields

British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol III, no. 3121

Wellcome Collection 578558i