Title

Unloading a cargo of tea, c1871-c1890. Artist: William Bazett Murray

Caption

Unloading a cargo of tea, c1871-c1890. Crates of tea are being unloaded from a ship and transferred to a wharehouse. A man in a top hat on the right inspects the merchandise from an opened crate. In the bottom left the bowels of the ship and its workers can be seen. Crates of tea are being winched to the upper level of the store, where a group of merchants with paperwork are hunched over the crates. A pair of weighing scales can be seen behind them.
Museum of London

Date

1871

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Museum of London

Reference

HRM19A84_246

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

53,9Mb (7,6Mb) / 12,9in x 16,3in / 3861 x 4877 (300dpi)

Keywords

building buildings people male job man men ORIENTAL country China Chinese trade warehouse guy occupation cargo crate tea location century profession unloading weighing scales winch B&W merchant MONOCHROME 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century Museum of London tea chest tea merchant engraving William Bazett Murray Murray William Bazett engraving