Sujet

Admission to the Strangers' Gallery of the House of Commons: 3.30!, 1881. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Admission to the Strangers' Gallery of the House of Commons, [Palace of Westminster]: 3.30!, 1881. ''[Our] Artist...has cleverly delineated the process of filtering, as it were, visitors through the purgatorial corridor they have frequently to linger in ere they can gain admission to what they appear to regard as the seventh heaven of the Strangers' Gallery of the House of Commons...Let it be supposed that our typical stranger has shown his pass to the policeman at the door, and been admitted to the corridor lined with statues of famous Parliamentary orators. Here are assembled far more than the stipulated sixty claimants for seats, seated on each side the corridor. At 3.30 sharp the door is closed - as the tardy visitor shown in one of the small sketches has found to his cost'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM25A42_329

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NA

Property release

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

5,6Mo (646,7Ko) / 9,8cm x 14,2cm / 1163 x 1672 (300dpi)

Mots clés

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