Title

'Wentworth Street, Whitechapel', 1872. Artist: A Bertrand

Caption

'Wentworth Street, Whitechapel', 1872; showing a lascar washing a dish. The lascar is on the left of the picture, surrounded by children at his feet, and a woman holding a baby behind him in the doorway. A sad looking girl sits at his feet holding a baby, while small children around her play in the gutter. A woman looks out at the scene from a window above. The term lascar means an East Indian sailor serving in the British Navy. Taken from London: A Pilgrimage by Blanchard Jerrold and Gustave Doré. A Pilgrimage was a comprehensive portrait of London, but although the book was a commercial success many of the critics disliked it. Several were upset that Jerrold and Doré had concentrated on the poverty that existed in London.
Museum of London

Date

1872

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Museum of London

Reference

HRM19A84_226

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

53,8Mb (3,8Mb) / 12,9in x 16,2in / 3877 x 4854 (300dpi)

Keywords

animal road building buildings London England female women woman people male boy boys girl girls man men house street baby babies play playing dog window guy sad lane avenue poor poverty war location dish miserable century hoop lady concept gutter Navy B&W sailor MONOCHROME warfare sailors RAG RAGGED destitute naval warfare 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century Tower Hamlets Museum of London East End lascar TGN Wentworth Street engraving Paul Gustave;Dore Gustave;Gustave Dore;Louis Christophe Gustave Dore ;Paul Gustave Dore Blanchard Jerrold Jerrold Blanchard A Bertrand Gustave Doré;Doré Bertrand A Blanchard Jerrold engraving