Title

'A Wedding in the Fleet', c1740s, (c1872). Creator: Unknown.

Caption

'A Wedding in the Fleet', c1740s, (c1872). Wedding taking place in the Fleet Market, Farringdon Street, London. The River Fleet was covered over in 1736 and Fleet Market was set up to the west of the Smithfield livestock market. From Old and New London, Vol. II: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places, by Walter Thornbury. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York]
The Print Collector collection

Date

1872

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19D50_217

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

61,4Mb (6,0Mb) / 18,1in x 13,2in / 5436 x 3948 (300dpi)

Keywords

city road London England female women woman people male job man men religious street country marriage religion finance market trade guy occupation British English lane avenue wedding location century stock market Britain profession priest lady B&W MONOCHROME publication Getting Married 19th century black & white black and white B W publisher 18th century Eighteenth Century nineteenth century The Print Collector Clerkenwell Farringdon Road Islington TGN Old and New London Cassell Unknown Thornbury Cassell & Company Ltd George Walter Thornbury George Walter Petter Galpin & Co Galpin & Company Fleet Market George Walter Thornbury