Satire on gin and the Act of 1736 taxing retail sales with a funeral monument to "Madam Geneva". An old, toothless woman in rags, a slipper falling from her foot, reclines in the centre leaning against a barrel holding an empty glass in one hand and with the other pointing down to the relief on the base of the monument which shows a sun bearing the image of a still eclipsed by a dark shadow, a ribbon below lettered "cease to drop distill no more". Two small ragged dram sellers at her feet hold, respectively, an empty barrel and a stool, basket and empty mug.On the left, standing on an empty barrel, a weeping, pregnant fishwife holds an empty basket and ignores the crying child standing beside her; on the right, on another empty barrel, a mournful distiller leans on the worm of his redundant still. The back of the monument is formed by a wooden vat on top of which is an inverted tankard supporting the top of the still, hung with torn curtains, on which lounges a grenadier holding his gun and bayonet and pointing down to the label (a distiller's apron) dedicating the tomb "To the Mortal Memory of Madam Geneva. Who died Sept. 29. 1736. Her Weeping Servants &amp; loving Friends consecrate This Tomb." Two columns of verse beneath.   18 October 1736
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