Title

The House in which Chatterton died, Brook-Street, Holborn, 1857. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

The House in which Chatterton died, Brook-Street, Holborn, 1857. '...we looked over the Gentleman's Magazine...thinking to find an account of the circumstances of the young poet's death, but found no mention of it, his fame was not then of sufficient note to attract much notice. However, we managed to learn that it was in the house of Mrs. Angle, a sackmaker in Brook-street, that Chatterton, a day or two after he had by accident tumbled into an open grave in Old St. Pancras graveyard, died, and was removed for interment to the burial-ground belonging to the parish in which paupers were chiefly interred. The house, a little while ago, formed part of Steffanoni's furniture warehouses, and was in a tattered and ruinous condition, but has recently been repaired. It would be well if some inscription could be put on the houses which are so often passed without notice in the London streets...'.. From "Illustrated London News", 1857.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM23A76_331

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NA

License type

Rights managed

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5,9Mb (505,6Kb) / 3,7in x 6,3in / 1096 x 1887 (300dpi)

Keywords

exterior outdoors building buildings London England house houses British color location century Britain newspapers press terraced house B&W Camden row house engraved engraving Colour 19th century black & white black and white B W rowhouse white and black 18th century Eighteenth Century nineteenth century The Print Collector Holborn Illustrated London News TGN wood engraving ILN outside street newspaper Brook Street Unknown Thomas Thomas Chatterton Chatterton 19th-century