A procession of publicans and a beggar following the coffin of Madam Geneva; satirizing the Act preventing distillers from retailing or selling to unlicensed premises. Engraving, 1751.
Wellcome Collection

A procession of publicans and a beggar following the coffin of Madam Geneva; satirizing the Act preventing distillers from retailing or selling to unlicensed premises. Engraving, 1751.

1751

CC0 — Public Domain
Wellcome Collection

Lettering: To those melancholly sufferers (by a late severe Act) the distillers this plate is most humbly inscrib'd by a lover of trade. The funeral procession of Madam Geneva sep.r 29.1751 publish'd according to Act of Parliament ...

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