Sujet

City Scavengers Cleansing the London Streets of Impurities', 1816. Artist: C Williams

Légende

'City Scavengers Cleansing the London Streets of Impurities', 1816. The Lord Mayor, Matthew Wood, Robert Waithman and Sir William Curtis forcibly removing prostitutes from the streets of the City and placing them on a cart. Sir John Silvester, Recorder, is reading the Riot Act on the steps of Mansion House.

Date

1816

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/City of London : The London Archives

Notre référence

HRM19B00_461

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

21,0Mo (1,2Mo) / 28,0cm x 18,8cm / 3304 x 2224 (300dpi)

Mots clés

transport transportation England female women woman people male job man men lifting country guy costume occupation British English color colour dress loading cart location century city of london Britain profession lady georgian vice prostitute prostitution metaphor road Transport 19th century nineteenth century Guildhall Library & Art Gallery alderman Alderman of London Lord Mayor of London Mansion House TGN Matthew Wood Sir Matthew Wood Sir William Curtis etching caricature satire Robert Waithman cleaning up the streets reading the Riot Act William Curtis Robert Matthew Sir Matthew C Sir William Wood C Williams C Williams;Williams William Curtis Waithman Williams C