Library — 1872
Orange Woman
Illustration showing an orange seller, from 'London: a Pilgrimage' by Blanchard Jerrold and Gustave Doré, 1872. According to Henry Mayhew in 'London Labour and the London Poor' (1861) the majority of the street sellers of oranges were 'women and children, and the great part of these are Irish'. Mayhew noted that the 'smallness of the sum required to provide a stock of oranges (a half-hundred being 15d. or 18d.), enables the poor, who cannot raise "stock-money" sufficient to purchase anything else, to trade upon a few oranges'. [12d = 5p]
- Category:
- Library
- Object ID:
- NN23607(37)
- Object name:
- Orange Woman
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- Artist/Maker:
- Doré, Gustave, Vien, Alphonse Jean Baptiste
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- Production date:
- 1872
- Material:
paper
- Measurements/duration:
- H 67 mm, W 48 mm
- Part of:
- —
- On display:
- —
- Record quality:
- 100%
- Part of this object:
- —
- Owner Status & Credit:
Permanent collection
- Copyright holder:
digital image © London Museum
- Image credit:
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