Sujet

Where You Should Not Dine on Christmas Day - drawn by Leech, 1850. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Where You Should Not Dine on Christmas Day - drawn by Leech, 1850. Illustration to "Cold out of Doors, and Cold In-Doors, or, Tom Smithers's Christmas Day". '...in walked Tom, as bold as if he had been an invited guest...Tom's heart sank within him...In spite of lustres, and lamps, and mirrors, and curtains, and sofas...and a roaring fire in the grate...there was a cold, icy chill nipped every look, and cramped every movement of every soul in the room...here was the magnificent Mr. Tipton, whose selfishness was so far narrower than most men's...and frozen Mrs. Tipton, who never betrayed, by a spark in her eye, the presence of any warmth whatever in her heart; the poor girls, who...had subsided into dreary social machines...There was no move to ask Tom to dinner; and he felt grateful for it before he had been ten minutes there'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM22A36_267

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

56,6Mo (4,3Mo) / 42,0cm x 33,8cm / 4960 x 3988 (300dpi)

Mots clés

female women woman people male man men religious religion guy British room Christianity Victorian century awkward Britain sitting room newspapers press living room drawing room concept embarrassment B&W embarrassed embarrassing engraved engraving living-room Christmas Day 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century The Print Collector drawing-room Illustrated London News sitting-room ILN christmas John Leech newspaper Unknown unwelcome Leech John 19th-century uninvited