Sujet

Interior of the old house, 1844. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Interior of the old house, 1844. Building in Clerkenwell, London. 'The mode in which this house is internally disposed denotes it to have long been "a den of thieves"; and up to the last Middlesex sessions it was tenanted by persons of dishonest and abandoned habits. It has all the conveniences of a hiding-place, with concealed means of escape - in dark closets, sliding panels, and secret recesses, and by as many trap doors as in the stage of a theatre. By passing down one of these traps, the pursued could elude the vigilance of the police, by getting through a window and crossing the Fleet Ditch over a plank which was kept at hand, and afterwards drawn into the opposite house'. From "Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol V.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM21A07_436

Model release

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Property release

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

67,9Mo (5,3Mo) / 40,5cm x 42,0cm / 4783 x 4960 (300dpi)

Mots clés

building buildings London England interior house houses British Victorian century Britain inside newspapers press B&W 19th century Indoors black & white black and white B W Hiding Place nineteenth century The Print Collector Clerkenwell Illustrated London News Islington TGN ILN newspaper engraving Unknown