Title

The Young Man Who is Alone, on Christmas Day - drawn by Leech, 1850. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

The Young Man Who is Alone, on Christmas Day - drawn by Leech, 1850. Illustration to "Cold out of Doors, and Cold In-Doors, or, Tom Smithers's Christmas Day". 'Tom Smithers was a member of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple...but on Christmas Day, 184-, Tom found himself with no invitation to dinner...on his way back to Chambers, he casts up a disconsolate glance at the house. Can it be? There is light in the kitchen - there is light in the drawingroom! Huzza! "They are at home !" And he knew them of old - the best people alive; and their house he knows for a house where reign truth, kindliness, and a hearty welcome, without ostentation; and which is warmed by that best of Christmas fires, the warmth of honest and loving hearts: [soon] Tom Smithers is shaking hands...in the house where you ought to DINE ON A CHRISTMAS DAY'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM22A36_226

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51,3Mb (4,4Mb) / 12,1in x 16,5in / 3616 x 4960 (300dpi)

Keywords

weather exterior outdoors building buildings season cold house houses light snow law window British warm warmth lighting windows loneliness lonely lamppost Victorian century Britain lawyer alone newspapers press lawyers concept B&W engraved engraving wintry street Lighting 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century The Print Collector Illustrated London News streetlighting ILN winter John Leech outside newspaper Unknown Leech John 19th-century