Title(s)

Street incidents (title on object)

Object type

• book

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-242

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘British Red Cross war library Not to be taken away’

Artist

• Adolphe Smith
• photographer: John Thompson
• publisher: Marston, Searle, & Rivington Sampson Low

Place

London

Dating

1881

Material

• paper
• linen (material)
• cardboard

Technique

printing / Woodburytype

Measurements

height 286 mm × width 216 mm × thickness 17 mm

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the Mondriaan Stichting, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the VSBfonds, the Paul Huf Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds and the Egbert Kunstfonds

Acquisition

purchase 2001

Copyright

Public domain

Parts

• A convicts' home (RP-F-2001-7-242-1)
• The "wall worker" (RP-F-2001-7-242-2)
• Covent Garden workers (RP-F-2001-7-242-3)
• Halfpenny ices (RP-F-2001-7-242-4)
• Black Jack (RP-F-2001-7-242-5)
• Cheap fish of St. Giles's (RP-F-2001-7-242-6)
• Cast-iron Billy (RP-F-2001-7-242-7)
• Workers on the "silent highway" (RP-F-2001-7-242-8)
• Workers on the "silent highway" (RP-F-2001-7-242-9)
• The London boardmen (RP-F-2001-7-242-10)
• The water-cart (RP-F-2001-7-242-11)
• "Mush-fakers" and ginger-beer makers (RP-F-2001-7-242-12)
• November effigies (RP-F-2001-7-242-13)
• "Hookey alf," of Whitechapel (RP-F-2001-7-242-14)
• The "crawlers" (RP-F-2001-7-242-15)
• Italian street musicians (RP-F-2001-7-242-16)
• The street locksmith (RP-F-2001-7-242-17)
• The seller of shell-fish (RP-F-2001-7-242-18)
• Flying dustmen (RP-F-2001-7-242-19)
• Old furniture (RP-F-2001-7-242-20)
• The independent shoe-black (RP-F-2001-7-242-21)