Sujet

The Great Fire in Southwark: parts of Cotton's Wharf and Haye's Warehouse, 1861. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

The Great Fire in Southwark: parts of Cotton's Wharf and Haye's Warehouse, 1861. 'Although the ruined warehouses and wharves in Tooley-street still present the appearance of a huge furnace, all danger of the fire spreading seems to have passed away. The fire is still burning with considerable power in the lower part of what was lately Cotton's Wharf, and the adjoining portion of the ruins...Experiments with the fire-annihilator have been made upon the ruins, but have not succeeded in extinguishing any of the immense bodies of fire pursuing their destructive course amongst the vaults and cellarage. There are nine cellars, each 100 feet long and 20 wide, and in them at the present time about two feet of palm oil and melted tallow are floating and burning over the whole surface...The flames may be seen through several openings for an immense distance, like an underground lake of fire...'. From "Illustrated London News", 1861.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM23B24_085

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Droits gérés

Format disponible

14,1Mo (1,1Mo) / 16,3cm x 21,7cm / 1925 x 2558 (300dpi)

Mots clés

building London England destruction arts art warehouse warehouses smoke fire British color damage damaged wharf docks dock location disaster century Britain catastrophe newspapers press print concept B&W engraved engraving Colour 19th century black & white black and white B W Southwark white and black nineteenth century The Print Collector Cotton's Wharf Hay's Wharf Illustrated London News TGN Tooley Street ILN street newspaper Unknown James Great Fire of Tooley Street Tooley Street fire 19th-century James Braidwood Braidwood