page_title: St Giles, London
section_title: Four Times of the Day
hierarchical_section_title: St Giles, London / Hogarth depictions of St Giles / Four Times of the Day
caption_attribution_description: English: Gin Lane, from Beer Street and Gin Lane. A scene of urban desolation with gin-crazed Londoners, notably a woman who lets her child fall to its death and an emaciated ballad-seller; in the background is the tower of St George's Bloomsbury. The accompanying poem, printed on the bottom, reads: Gin, cursed Fiend, with Fury fraught, &#160;&#160;&#160;Makes human Race a Prey. It enters by a deadly Draught &#160;&#160;&#160;And steals our Life away. Virtue and Truth, driv'n to Despair &#160;&#160;&#160;Its Rage compells to fly, But cherishes with hellish Care &#160;&#160;&#160;Theft, Murder, Perjury. Damned Cup! that on the Vitals preys &#160;&#160;&#160;That liquid Fire contains, Which Madness to the heart conveys, &#160;&#160;&#160;And rolls it thro' the Veins. Français&#160;: La rue du Gin. Gravure accompagnée d'un poème dans sa première édition. Traduction du poème: "Le gin, maudit démon, empli de furie, &#160;&#160;&#160;Fait de la race humaine une proie. Il rentre en une gorgée mortelle, &#160;&#160;&#160;Et vole a vie, La Vertu et la vérité, menées au désespoir, &#160;&#160;&#160;Sa rage les fait fuir, Mais il chérit avec un attention infernale, &#160;&#160;&#160;Le vol, le meurtre et le parjure. Maudite coupe, qui happe les vivants, &#160;&#160;&#160;Ce liquide contient un feu, Dont il mène la folie au coeur, &#160;&#160;&#160;Et et le guide dans les veines."
context_page_description: St Giles is a district of London, in the south-west of the London Borough of Camden. It gets its name from the parish church of St Giles in the Fields. The combined parishes of St Giles in the Fields and St George Bloomsbury were administered jointly for many centuries; leading to the conflation of the two, with much or all of St Giles usually taken to be a part of Bloomsbury.
  Points of interest include the church of St Giles in the Fields, the Phoenix Garden and St Giles Circus.
context_section_description: The etching "Noon" from Four Times of the Day by Hogarth takes place in Hog Lane, with the church of St Giles in the Fields in the background. Hogarth would feature St Giles again as the background of Gin Lane and First Stage of Cruelty. The picture shows the Huguenot refugees who arrived in the 1680s and established themselves in the silk trade; Hogarth contrasts their fussiness and high fashion with the slovenliness of the group on the other side of the road; the rotting corpse of a cat that has been stoned to death lying in the gutter that divides the street is the only thing the two sides have in common. The older members of the congregation wear traditional dress, while the younger members wear the fashions of the day. The children are dressed up as adults: the boy in the foreground struts around in his finery while the boy with his back to the viewer has his hair in a net,  bagged up in the "French" style. At the far right, a black man, probably a freed slave, fondles the breasts of a woman, distracting her from her work, her pie-dish "tottering like her virtue".  In front of the couple, a boy has set down his pie to rest, but the plate has broken, spilling the pie onto the ground where it is being rapidly consumed by an urchin.
caption: Gin Lane by William Hogarth (1751)
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