Sujet

Dancing between Decks, 1850. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Dancing between Decks, 1850. Emigrants leaving 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. Depiction of '... emigrants, male and female, dancing between decks - to the music of the violin - played for their amusement, by some of their fellow-passengers...Though many of the Irish emigrants are, doubtless, persons of small means, who have been hoarding and saving for years, and living in rags and squalor, in order to amass sufficient money to carry themselves and families across the Atlantic, and to beg their way to the western states, where they may "squat" or purchase cheap lands, the great bulk appear to be people of the most destitute class, who go to join their friends and relatives, previously established in America'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM22A35_008

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

51,1Mo (4,6Mo) / 42,0cm x 30,5cm / 4960 x 3601 (300dpi)

Mots clés

transport transportation female women woman people male man men dance entertainment guy ship ships dancing British dancer dancers deck passengers passenger Victorian century Britain newspapers press emigration B&W engraved engraving sailing ship sailing ships on deck 19th century water transport black & white black and white B W emigrant emigrants nineteenth century The Print Collector Illustrated London News ILN newspaper on board Unknown 19th-century