Jacobs Island Rotherhithe 1887 Size:medium narrow houses and church spires

narrow houses and church spires

Measures 8cm x 13

sitting beside a paper stating "we demand the vote

treat yourself to a rest in one of the capital's numerous floral ‘Street Sofas’

He entertained lavishly and held noted musical soirées

Jacobs Island Rotherhithe 1887 Size:medium narrow houses and church spiresIllustration to Dickens' novel: 'the strangest of the many strange places in London'. Signed (with monogram) and dated 1887. This watercolour features Jacob's Island, Rotherhithe. Dickens wrote about this area in Oliver Twist , ' In such a neighbourhood, beyond Dockhead in the Borough of Southwark, stands Jacob's Island, surrounded by a muddy ditch, six or eight feet deep and 15 or 20 wide when the tide is in, once called Mill Pond, but known in the