Urchin Collection

Incidents of the Easter Volunteer Review, 1870. Creator: Unknown
Incidents of the Easter Volunteer Review, 1870. British soldiers take part in an annual event near Brighton: a '...sham fight on Easter Monday

The Guards' Band in St. James's Park, 1870. Creator: Joseph Swain
The Guards' Band in St. James's Park, [London], 1870. '...the tramp of magnificently-drilled soldiers is heard approaching@; the Guards are coming to play on the Parade

Visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to Ireland: Royal Procession...College-Green... 1868. Creator: Unknown
Visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to Ireland: the Royal Procession passing College-Green, Dublin, 1868. 'The carriage of the Prince and Princess of Wales was escorted by a troop of the 10th

A Sketch in the Streets of London, 1858. Creator: Unknown
A Sketch in the Streets of London, 1858. Engraving...from a Sketch of M. Louis Bulewski...of a very curious specimen of English nomads...We do not know how better to describe their general costume

Fire-Plug, 1858. Creator: Unknown
Fire-Plug [fire hydrant], 1858. A cry of fire has been raised. The water bailiff has promptly turned on the water, and from one of the fireplugs gushes a mass of water

Urchins Looking at a Lady Lifting Her Skirt, c1859. Creator: John McLenan
Urchins Looking at a Lady Lifting Her Skirt, c1859

Street scene in an Italian city, 1865-1892. Creator: Nicolaes van der Waay
Street scene in an Italian city, 1865-1892

Boy secretly takes a puff of a cigar held by a man looking at sheet music, c.1900-c.1950. Creator: Mat
Boy secretly takes a puff of a cigar held by a man looking at sheet music, c.1900-c.1950. A Quiet Draw - barefoot street urchin on an accordion and bowler-hatted man

The close of a career in New York, between 1900 and 1906. Creator: Byron Company
The close of a career in New York, between 1900 and 1906

Two poor boys, late 1800s/turn of the century. Creator: Unknown
Two poor boys, late 1800s/turn of the century

The Urchin, 1861-62. Creator: Edouard Manet
The Urchin, 1861-62

The Urchin, 1868. Creator: Edouard Manet
The Urchin, 1868

Field Lane Ragged School, Smithfield, City of London, 1850. Artist: George Cruikshank
Field Lane Ragged School, Smithfield, City of London, 1850. Interior view of the Field Lane Ragged School showing adults attempting to teach a group of disorderly children

Sunday morning on the ground of the Farringdon Street extension, Field Lane, City of London, 1865

A Taylor riding to Brentford, 1786. Artist: TS Stayner
A Taylor riding to Brentford, 1786. A nervous man, with Rules for bad horsemen in his pocket, rides to Brentford, Hounslow. Two stable lads standing in a doorway laugh at him

Light your Honor Coach unhired; scene at Covent Garden piazza, Cries of London, 1811
Light your Honor Coach unhired ; scene at Covent Garden piazza. An officer escorts a young lady who is followed by her mother

The Old Musician, 1862. Artist: Edouard Manet
The Old Musician, 1862. The painting is part of the Chester Dale Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. From Masterpieces of Painting, edited by Huntington Cairns and John Walker

Brown and Gold, Lillie In Our Alley, 1896 (1904). Artist: James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Brown and Gold, Lillie In Our Alley, 1896 (1904). Lillie Pamington a child model found by James McNeill Whistler on the streets of London. From Whistler As I Knew Him, by Mortimer Menpes

On the Wall, Vollendam, 1898. Artist: Nico Jungmann
On the Wall, Vollendam, 1898. Plate taken from The Studio magazine, volume 13, no 59 (London, 15th February 1898)

The Stage-Coach of the Last Century, 1855. An 18th-century mode of transport. A print from The Illustrated London News, (14 July 1855)

Dr. Birch and His Young Friends, 1880. Artist: Joseph Swain
Dr. Birch and His Young Friends, 1880. Sir William Harcourt, the Liberal Home Secretary, prepares a birch labelled Juvenile Offenders Act

A Legend of Camelot. Part 1, 1866. Artist: George du Maurier
A Legend of Camelot. Part 1, 1866. A woman walks along the street with her extremely long hair wrapped and billowing around her

John Bulls Neutrality, 1863. Artist: John Tenniel
John Bulls Neutrality, 1863. Look Here, Boys, I Don t Care Twopence For Your Noise, But If You Throw Stones At My Windows, I Must Thrash You Both

Utility Combined with Elegance, 1858. Artist: Captain HR Howard
Utility Combined with Elegance, 1858. This cartoon is one of very many in Punch during the mid-Victorian period which satirise womens fashions

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