Sujet
Admission to the Strangers' Gallery of the House of Commons: preliminaries, 1881. Creator: Unknown.
Légende
Admission to the Strangers' Gallery of the House of Commons, [Palace of Westminster]: preliminaries, 1881. '[Our] Artist...has cleverly delineated the process of filtering...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... A ballot has to take place, trusty Inspector Denning presiding over the operation. He collects the orders, folds them, and drops them one by one into a glass bowl. Inspector Denning then stirs the papers in the bowl, and calls out the name of each visitor, whose order is duly inspected by Colonel Forester, another official of the House...the requisite sixty having secured precedence by drawing lots, and having been marched like so many prisoners into the Inner Lobby, whence they climb to their coveted eyrie in the sanctum sanctorum, it is on the cards that our representative visitor will have to wait and patiently sit with other disappointed wights in the corridor till another ballot takes place at six o'clock. He may consider himself lucky if he gets in then, as it sometimes happens that nine, ten, eleven o'clock passes, and still finds some unfortunate waiter on providence'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector
Notre référence
HRM25A42_330
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
9,0Mo (1,1Mo) / 16,8cm x 13,5cm / 1979 x 1591 (300dpi)