Breakfasting Out 1859 Ephemera shipped by Messrs W

shipped by Messrs W

it looks east towards Ludgate Hill and St Paul's Cathedral

The panorama was on show at the Colosseum in Regent's Park

A century after the Industrial Revolution began

Reid photographed the wharf and this skipper a number of times as part of his extensive record of the banks of the Thames during the late 1920s and early 30s

Breakfasting Out 1859 Ephemera shipped by Messrs WA Coffee Stall. Oil on canvas. A baker's man, a boy wearing a City of London badge, seated in a wheelbarrow, and a young lady carrying a band box are shown with cups of coffee, while the proprietress is washing up. On the left is a ragged girl with a broom, evidently a crossing sweeper, and a woman with a basket on her head. The painting was acquired by the London Museum as a work by Charles Hunt and is signed and dated accordingly at bottom left.