Title

'The British Slave', 1861. Artist: Unknown

Caption

'The British Slave', 1861. The worker, a bricklayer, has been on strike, but, looking at his distressed wife and children, has realised his family needs him to return to work. There is no fire in the grate, nor food on the table. His working tools lie idle on the floor under a notice of the bricklayers' demands. A union official, stout, florid and well-dressed, finds it easy to instruct the bricklayer to remain on strike, and not to give in, Want to go to work, do yer? Goin' to give in, are yer? Not if I know it From Punch, or the London Charivari, April 20, 1861.

Date

1861

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Cartoon Collector

Reference

HRM19A89_094

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

53,9Mb (3,2Mb) / 16,6in x 12,6in / 4969 x 3790 (300dpi)

Keywords

people male child children job man men hat family rich trade guy occupation clothes tool feeling crying dress poor poverty strike umbrella century worry profession worried cry anxious concept fat top hat distressed B&W cartoon MONOCHROME striker bricklayer 19th century bricklaying black & white black and white B W nineteenth century Heritage Image Partnership trade union trade union official engraving Unknown engraving