Sujet

'Opium Smoking-The Lascar's Room in "Edwin Drood"', 1872. Creator: Albert Doms.

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'Opium Smoking-The Lascar's Room in "Edwin Drood"', 1872. The lascar sits in the corner of the room, underneath a flight of wooden stairs, with his opium pipe, grinning at his audience. A group of men and a woman crowd round on the left. The light from the candle gives the room an eery quality. A cat sits in the shadows on the stairs. The term lascar means an East Indian sailor serving in the British Navy. Taken from "London: A Pilgrimage" by Blanchard Jerrold and Gustave Doré. "A Pilgrimage" was a comprehensive portrait of London, but although the book was a commercial success many of the critics disliked it. Several were upset that Jerrold and Doré had concentrated on the poverty that existed in London.

Date

1872

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/London Museum

Notre référence

HRM19A84_224

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NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

53.9Mo (5.1Mo) / 31.9cm x 42.4cm / 3762 x 5004 (300dpi)

Mots clés

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