Title

'The Cottage'. Artist: Unknown

Caption

'The Cottage'. The man warming his hands at the fire is a rural worker. This one room has to provide living and sleeping accommodation for his wife and large family. The scene is one of overcrowding and destitution. Mr Punch, wearing a large top hat and with his back to the viewer, says to the landlord, that his horses were better provided for than his workers. Both the landlord and his female companion appear to be shocked by what they can see. The accommodation provided by the average landlord for the poor of Britain, whether urban or rural, was a continuing scandal throughout the mid-Victorian period. From Punch, or the London Charivari.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Cartoon Collector

Reference

HRM19A89_087

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

53,9Mb (3,4Mb) / 16,5in x 12,7in / 4935 x 3820 (300dpi)

Keywords

building buildings female women woman people male child children interior indoors job man men hat family class washing guy occupation fire clothes bed bedroom room cottage dress overcrowding poor poverty workmen workman profession inside fireplace lady concept landlord top hat B&W cramped cartoon MONOCHROME social ills destitute black & white black and white B W Heritage Image Partnership bedchamber class divide tennant engraving Unknown John John Leech;Leech engraving