Ye Old Shoppe
by Jean Walker
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16.000 x 24.000 x 1.000 inches
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Title
Ye Old Shoppe
Artist
Jean Walker
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
Victorian Shopp'e in the dickenzian era ; For the first half of the 19th century the rural and urban poor had much in common: unsanitary and overcrowded housing, low wages, poor diet, insecure employment and the dreaded effects of sickness and old age. By 1851 the census showed the urban population was larger than that of the rural areas. Towns provided a wider range of jobs, but unskilled and casual workers continued to struggle with low wages and irregular incomes, the fear of accidents and the dread of slipping into that 'sunken sixth' of the workforce, the 'residuum' so close to the criminal underworld which Dickens wrote about.
London in the eighteenth century was a swirling mass of contrasts. A rowdy hedonistic, gin-swilling public rubbed shoulders with gentlefolk keen to do good work. One of the worst problems affected by the social conditions in London in the early eighteenth century was the large numbers of children either entirely abandoned or thrown on the tender mercies of the parish - illegitimate children were handed over to parish officers for a lump sum.
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Jean Walker
Hans Christian Anderson is what this work was based on Roland.I am pleased you made the connection...!!!
Jean Walker
bless you Gabriella for your wonderful comment...your work is also Wonderful...I shall pop back for another look at your portfolio...!!!