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Images about Streets

33 images from works
  • A poor London street strewn with hopeless drunkards and lined with gin shops and a flourishing pawnbroker. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.
  • Egypt: a street with a man smoking and riding a camel. Chromolithograph after C. F. H. Werner, 1873.
  • Phrenological properties of drawing: colour, form, space, order. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1826.
  • A street scene with a tall man offering snuff to a short, fat man. Coloured etching by W.P., 1827.
  • Crowded dark streets full of dead and dying people, bodies are being loaded on to a cart; representing cholera. Watercolour by R. Cooper.
  • Boer War: a large crowd in Cape Town on hearing news of the relief of Kimberley. Halftone, 1900, after J. Bruton.
  • A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.
  • Above Bar Street, Southampton, Hampshire. Coloured engraving by P. Brannon, 1846.
  • A surgeon extracting a guinea worm from a man's leg, in the background is a similar scene after a successful operation, a surgeon is holding a long worm. Photograph of a halftone after an engraving by J. Luyken.
  • A drunken street brawl between four young colporteurs and a man, with two accompanying couplets. Etching, 16th century (?).
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Works from the collections

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    Men, women and children are using roller skates as a mode of transport around the streets. Wood engraving.

    | Reference: 37254i
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    Part of a map of the City of Westminster and the immediate environs. Engraving, 1764.

    | Date: 1764 | Reference: 40386i
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    Sion College, London Wall, London: view of the north facade, with a man climbing a ladder to attend to a street lamp. Etching, 1800.

    John Thomas Smith | Date: 20 July 1800 | Reference: 23424i
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    A surgeon extracting a guinea worm from a man's leg, in the background is a similar scene after a successful operation, a surgeon is holding a long worm. Photograph of a halftone after an engraving by J. Luyken.

    Jan Luyken | Reference: 22554i
    • Ephemera

    Caution : any person committing any annoyance or any nuisance whatever on any footway or foot-pavement, or on any road or way, within the District of the Hastings Local Board of Health.

    | Date: 1851
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Related topics

Bars (Drinking establishments)
Taverns (Inns)
Hotels
Alcoholism
Alcohol Drinking
Alcoholic Beverages
Tankards
Ethics
Location Directories and Signs
Porters

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