19th Century Social Scenes

Illustrations portraying various social interactions and cultural contexts from the 19th century, including leisure and migration themes.

'Railway Travelling in India', c1891. From "Cassell's Illustrated History of India Vol. II.", by James Grant. Cassell Petter & Galpin, London, Paris and New York

Illustration depicting a friend helping a friend write a proposal. Dated 19th Century

Cartoon commenting on the joys of travelling on the London Underground. Dated 19th century

Engraving of a group playing cards on deck. Ladies in headscarves watching. The point behind the drawing is that Jews do not observe Sunday as their sabbath, Christians would not play cards on Sunday. Date: 1891

Engraving showing a Jewish immigrant with his pack on his back, being greeted by a loved one, while an officer from the Jewish shelter looks on, London, 1904. The officers of the shelter tried to ensure that all immigrants went to stay with their family or friends, rather than heading straight for an East End 'sweat shop'. This engraving was part of an article in the Illustrated London News entitled 'The Alien in England: Scenes of the Foreign Invasion of the East End of London'. Dat

Lady taking a hamper of Christmas food to cottagers.

GOING FOR A WALK

Illustration depicting domestic staff being dismissed by their employer, who has returned home unexpectedly. Dated 19th Century

They were seated around a table with women in pink tights and tutus, vintage engraved illustration. Journal des Voyage, Travel Journal, (1880-81).

'Railway Travelling in India', c1891. From "Cassell's Illustrated History of India Vol. II.", by James Grant. Cassell Petter & Galpin, London, Paris and New York

Returning from work, the farmer's wife comes from field work and has the youngest child in the back basket, scene in a farmhouse in Holland, Historisch, historical, digitally improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century, digitally restored reproduction of an original from the 19th century, exact original date not known

Spitalfields silk weaver and his wife showing a visitor their family records. One loom can be seen in the window and a second was at the other end of the room. Both husband and wife were expert weavers. 1893

Germany/Burma: left to right, Tibetan women, a Lama from Lhasa, Munchner Bilderbogen, Braun & Schneider, 1861-1890

Cartoon depicting Prince Albert (1819-1861) as 'The British Farmer'. Dated 19th Century

An engraving depicting a woman tossing pancakes on Shrove Tuesday. Dated 19th century

Out of work - A longshoreman's family at home, New York City, circa 1892

HOME FOR NEWS-BOYS IN THE METROPOLIS

Boerenbog flirts with a girl through a window frame. .

Pickwick Papers, -Mrs. Bardell screamed violently; Tommy roared; Mrs. Cluppins shrunk within herself; and Mrs. Sanders made off without more ado

Engraving showing a large group of poor children rushing into the King Edward's Mission, Whitechapel, to receive a free dinner, 1890. Date: 15 March 1890

Engraving depicting young children playing together. Dated 19th Century

'With the Duke and Duchess of Connaught in Japan- The Duke Buying Furs at Nikko', 1890. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper", Volume 41. January to June, 1890.

Native American Indian and trader, 1777, USA.

Priest teaching young woman in the farmhouse, historical illustration circa 1893

A crowd of people rush to admire the royal wedding presents on display at the Imperial Institute. The gifts came from the wedding of George Duke of York(later King George V)(1865-1936) and Princess May of Teck(later the Duchess of York, then Queen Mary)(1867-1953). Date: 6th July 1893

Footman presenting a card that a caller has left for his mistress. Wood engraving, London, 1888

The first visit of the grandparents after the birth of the child, family scene from 1888, farmhouse in Germany / Der erste Besuch der Großeltern nach der Geburt des Kindes, Familienszene aus 1888, Bauernhaus in Deutschland, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert.

Miners in the Californian gold fields relaxing in their log cabin at night. From L'Illustration Paris 6 August 1853. Wood engraving

Engraving showing emigrant boys from 'Dr. Stephenson's Home' singing Grace before a meal on board an Atlantic steamship, 1884. The boys are shown in uniform with Scottish hats singing before they start to eat at the table. Date: 1884

Families eagerly eating their rations and waving as the food arrives. The women are well wrapped up against the cold and the men are in typical russian peasant costume with long belted tunics and boots. Date: 1891

Evening Prayer, Girl prays with her mother in the evening in front of going to bed, 1869, Germany, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, Europe

Vintage antique illustration and line drawing or engraving of biblical story about Joseph promoted to vizier of Egypt. From Biblische Geschichte des alten und neuen Testaments, Germany 1859.Genesis 41. Man riding chariot through crowd.. Vintage Drawing of Man Sitting on Luxury Chariot or Wagon and Riding Through Crowd. Biblical Story About Promotion of Joseph to Vizier of Egypt

Illustration depicting a husband and wife arguing outside of a public house in London. Dated 19th Century

Engraving by Ebenezer Landells showing a rural scene with women 'pottling' strawberries. Pottles were small, basket-like containers which would be carried in great quantities by women from Middlesex and Surrey, by foot, to the markets of London. According to the ILN article accompanying the picture, these women came from Shropshire and Wales each summer to perform the task, often making two round trips of a distance of up to 30 miles a day for a wage of 8 shillings. Date: 1847

A bill to licence drinking places meets with vigorous disapproval from a young woman in Kennington Road, London. She is so incensed that she climbs up a lamppost. Date: 1871

Cartoon titled 'Sauce for the Gander' commenting on the engineers strike in Newcastle which supported the reduction of working hours to nine hours a day. An engineer sits down to his evening meal, whilst his wife continues to perform her household duties. Illustrated by Joseph Swain (1820-1909) an English wood-engraver. Dated 19th century

Listeners stifle their yawns as a serious-looking child performs a dull or lengthy piece on the piano. Date: 1843

New York City - Doing the Slums - A scene in Five Points. Policeman leading upper class people through the Five Points neighborhood, circa 1885.

Christmas Travelers in England by unknown artist

Engraving of a young daughter checking in on her hardworking father. Dated 19th Century

Engraving depicting a middle class family at the kitchen table. Dated 18th Century

festivities, New Years Eve, congratulations for the New Year, representatives of different professions and housewife, wood engraving, by Wilhelm Gause (1853 - 1916), late 19th century,

Unemployed people from East End of London beg for money. Image published in 'The Illustrated London News'. Engraving.

Illustration depicting a couple courting. Dated 19th Century

Slaves waiting to be sold in New Orleans 1861. Despite the squalor and suffering, slavery was an integral part of life in New Orleans, which became the country's largest slave market, according to the National Park Service .

Engraving depicting young men playing chess together. Dated 19th century

A coachman with a whip and a woman with a kettle: the man mistrusts anything using steam (implying steam trains). Pencil and ink wash by S. Jenner, ca. 1830.

"Shrove Tuesday", 1882. Engraving by Baude after the canvas by the Finnish painter Gunnar Berndtson (1854-1895). Inexperienced cook. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana (The Spanish and American Illustration), March 30, 1884.

An engraving depicting a pedlar displaying his tray of wares to a country housewife. Dated 19th century

Illustration by Gustave Dore showing slums in London

people women 19th century husband helping wife to drive nail in wall engraving from ""Fliegende Bl_tter"" Munich 1847 private collection,

Students at Bonn, 1845. Young men at Bonn in Germany: '...the small cap, jauntily placed upon a pile of hair, the short quaintly cut morning coat, and natty trowsers'. From "Illustrated London News", 1845, Vol VII.

Das Ende der Not, Vater kommt mit Geld oder sein Lohn nach Hause zur Familie, Deutschland, Reproduktion eines Bildes, Holzschnitt aus dem Jahr 1881, digitalrestauriert, Historisch, The end of the distress, father comes with money or his pay home to the family, reproduction of an image, woodcut from the year 1881, digital improved, historical

A Lady and her maid catch their pigeon as it returns home with a message. Date: 1870

'Lord and Lady Wolseley and their daughter', c1882-85. Artist: Unknown.

The horticultural man of business: a gardener regarding a potted plant. Date: 1843

History of France. Paris. "Chiffonnier". Ragpicker who roamed the streets of the city in search of clothes and all kinds of utensils that people discarded, to sell them later. Engraving by Bernardo Rico (1825-1894). La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana (The Spanish and American Illustration), February 15, 1884.

When the West was Really Wild: The Fine Work of a Party of Playful Cowboys 1885 Artist Unknown

Drinking at cafe Genin, Paris. Date: 1858

A cartoon depicting a young girl inspecting the false teeth of a man. Illustrated by George du Maurier (1834-1896) a Franco-British cartoonist and author. Dated 19th century

19th century cartoon of a French restaurant or café with many customers talking and waiting for food. 1860

Cosy scene showing a group of women in a typical late Victorian sitting room or parlour. The picture shows them drinking tea and talking, while the background clearly gives a good impression of what a domestic interior looked like in 1883. Date: 1883

Cottager making pillow lace. Engraving, Ongar, 1823.

'Costumes of the Men of Erekli', 1854. From "Cassells Illustrated Family Paper; London Weekly 31/12/1853 - 30/12/1854".

A wealthy man at his dinner table is offered a clyster by a servant. Lithograph by Tal-Zar.

A cafe with native people sitting and relaxing, woodcut, 1888, Bosnia

Father Beccaro among Calabrian children displaced after the earthquake, Milan, Italy, drawing by Riccardo Salvadori, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXXII, No 41, October 8, 1905.

Illustration titled 'Rich and Poor in a London Square on a Sunday Morning' by William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) an English novelist . Dated 19th Century

At what point of the side we get there, vintage engraved illustration.

Selling poultry at Palais- Royal.

Harvesting and gathering chestnuts, c. 1870, Italy, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century..

Arthurs mother thanking Tom for the care and friendship he has shown to her son. Illustration for 1869 edition of Tom Browns Schooldays by Thomas Hughes. Original edition 1857.

Memories of Mississippi. An old man sprawled on one of the layers of the cabin, vintage engraving. Memories of Mississippi. An old man sprawled on one of the layers of the cabin, vintage engraved illustration. Journal des Voyage, Travel Journal, 1879-80. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10656914

Poor boy, shoeless and in rags, begging on a street corner. Chromolithograph London c1880

Ludwig Philipp, Graf von Neuilly, and his family to Claremont from Illustrirte Zeitung, Unknown

Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son. 1846,1847,1848, AND WHEN HE GOT THERE, SAT DOWN IN A CHAIR, AND FELL INTO A SILENT FIT OF LAUGHTER, WITH HE WAS SOMETIMES SEIZED, AND WHICH WAS ALWAYS PARTICULARLY AWFUL.'

Engraving showing a street scene during a foggy day in London, November 1872. Several people are shown carrying burning torches to light their way. Date: 9 November 1872

Chinese barbers. Customers standing waiting for their number, vintage engraved illustration. Journal des Voyages, Travel Journal, (1879-80).

Engraving depicting the royal visit of Queen Victoria (1819-1901) and Prince Albert (1819-1861) to Ireland. Dated 19th Century

Women wearing house and walking dresses, Iran. Drawing by Jules Laurens (1825-1901) Journey to Persia, 1855-1858 by Arthur de Gobineau (1816-1882) Le Tour du Monde 1860

Illustration depicting people skating on a frozen lake. Dated 19th century

Girl with her little sister guarding ducks, woodcut, historical engraving, 1880

Illustration depicting a brother and sister quarrelling. Dated 19th Century

A Parade of Societies in Brussels, Belgium, drawing by Verdyen, vintage illustration. Le Tour du Monde, Travel Journal, 1881

An engraving depicting children collecting wild berries and flowers, while the baby sits in a baby carriage. Dated 19th century

Illustration depicting a man sat on a wooden bench. Illustrated by Fred Barnard (1846-1896) a Victorian English illustrator, caricaturist and genre painter. Dated 19th century

Visitors arrive at the door of a farmhouse where a party is already in progress Date: 1848

'" Madame Leroux"; By Francis Eleanor Trollope; "Should you say Miss Enderby is exactly thick with her, d'ye think" answered Mr. Pinhorn, the grocer.

Illustration depicting a grandmother and grand daughter sharing some tea. Dated 19th Century

The Summer Day Parade in Heidelberg, angolan rousette (1898), customary festival in the Electoral Palatinate and neighbouring areas, Historic, digital reproduction of an original 19th century original, original date unknown

The painting Napoleon in Peasants Cottage was done in 1863 by the English painter Marcus Stone. After the disastrous defeat of Waterloo in June of 1815, the Emperor, with a small escort, fled to Paris, and the picture presents an incident of the flight. Resting for a brief space, he has entered a cottage, and is brooding by the fire. General Bertrand is drying the Emperor's coat, while a group of peasants stand aloof and gaze with awe and sympathy at their fallen idol- a young mother with a baby in her arms, a little girl and boy, a young widow, and an old soldier with an empty sleeve. There is an absence of men of fighting age, who have been drawn away for service in the campaign.

Spain. Madrid. The corner of the dangers's street. Engraving in The Spanish and American Illustration, 1870. Colored.

Netherlands, Bray, Dirck de, Months of the year, January, verso lower left - stamped, The celebration of the Epiphany. Four boys hold up a lighted star in front of a house with three figures in the doorway. An Aquarius sits in the background., print, prent, prints, prenten, height 64 mm, width 112 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1645 - 1694-05-09, print maker, prentmaker, 1635 - 1694, paper, papier, houtsnede

The Cafe farmer Restaurant in Berlin in 1876, Germany, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact date unknown, Europe

Elegant ladies and gentlemen of high society on a Sunday afternoon stroll, here in Galatz, today Galati, a city in Romania, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original

Illustration depicting an emigrant reading aboard a ship travelling to America. Dated 19th century

To the left a man wearing a long rock with a fur collar and a fur -edge cap. In one hand he holds a dog in the neck, in the other a rifle. "Lloyd". To the right a conversation couple. "Koberg 30 Dec. 1873". By Fritz von Dardel. Nordic

These illustrations show women and men engaged in activities such as carding wool, spinning, sowing, threshing, minnowing and 'scutching'. These traditional working methods depicted were common in rural and farming communities during the 19th century in Ireland. Date: 13 March 1880

An Evening Party of King Frederick William I the Tobacco College, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact date unknown

Illustration depicting men playing cards, in the foreground a young woman pours tea. Dated 19th century

Judge Chew, a Tory, lived in large stone house, in Germantown, where British officers often spent an afternoon or evening.

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