Sujet

The Departure, 1850. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

The Departure, 1850. Emigrants leaving Britain for the colonies: United States, Canada, South Africa, Australia or New Zealand. The average annual emigration from the United Kingdom between 1825 and 1850 was 91,407. 'Since the fatal years of the potato famine and the cholera, the annual numbers of emigrants have gone on increasing, until they have become so great as to suggest the idea, and almost justify the belief, of a gradual depopulation of Ireland...The majority of emigrants take a steerage passage, and go out at the cheapest rate. Out of the 153,902 mentioned...as having left the port of Liverpool in 1849, the number of first and second cabin passengers was only 4639'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM22A35_005

Model release

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Property release

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

47,0Mo (5,0Mo) / 42,0cm x 28,1cm / 4960 x 3313 (300dpi)

Mots clés

transport transportation female women woman people male child children man men guy ship ships British deck passengers passenger overcrowding poor poverty Victorian century waving gesturing Britain overcrowded newspapers press leaving concept emigration B&W hand gesture engraved engraving sailing ship sailing ships destitute on deck 19th century water transport black & white black and white B W emigrant emigrants nineteenth century The Print Collector Illustrated London News steerage ILN newspaper on board Unknown 19th-century