Library — 1872
A Whitechapel coffee house
An illustration from 'London: a Pilgrimage' by Blanchard Jerrold and Gustave Doré, 1872. Jerrold describes a nightime tour of the East End: 'We advance into a low, long dark room parted into boxes, in which are packed the most rascally company any great city could show. They stare, leer, dig each other in the ribs - fold their black hands over the cards - and grunt and growl sotto voce as the superintendent reviews them with a firm and placid look of command. The place is clean, compared with the guests... but it is charged with the unmistakable, overpowering damp and mouldy odour, that is in every thieves' kitchen, in every common lodging house, every ragged hotel [in London]'.
- Category:
- Library
- Object ID:
- NN23607(139)
- Object name:
- A Whitechapel coffee house
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- Artist/Maker:
- Doré, Gustave, Pannemaker, François
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- Production date:
- 1872
- Material:
paper
- Measurements/duration:
- H 112 mm, W 172 mm
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- On display:
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- Record quality:
- 100%
- Part of this object:
- —
- Owner Status & Credit:
Permanent collection
- Copyright holder:
digital image © London Museum
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