Good grief, grow up. I am not going back to our every usage of "Gin Lane" to add a "this may offend your sensibilities" tag.
I thought I was going above and beyond the call just to make clear the old saying:
The motto is inscribed above the arch, bottom left-click to enlarge.
And from one of the founders of The Critic:
Apparently Hogarth reveals "the entrenchment of racist, sexist and xenophobic stereotypes". Rather astonishing for an eighteenth century caricaturist... who would have thought it? pic.twitter.com/Qr9TuqkM3q
— Michael Mosbacher (@MossyMosbacher) November 14, 2021
Here's the Tate's webpage on the exhibition.
And here's a freebie, Trigger Warning!!! The etymology of "hungover" about a century after the above:
Ethanol: Now That's Hungover
From Vanessa at Messy Nessy Chic:
The Victorian “Two Penny Hangover”: How the term “hungover” originated
At one of the first homeless shelters in London, for two pennies a night people could sleep resting over a rope (they were forbidden from lying down). It was called the “two-penny-hangover” and it may likely be where the term “hungover” originates from.
Full article found on Historic UK.
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