Photography on the Common c.1877 Size:extra large I worked on it until

I worked on it until the place became too busy and finished it some time later from memory

The section covers the area between Baring Street in the North West

Among the shops seen are: jewellers

77cm x 43cm

Westminster Bridge and the Houses of Parliament from the River

Photography on the Common c.1877 Size:extra large I worked on it untilAn itinerant portrait photographer at work on Clapham Common, c. 1877. The photographer is taking a portrait of a nanny and her charge. These were easy subjects as nannies were fond of taking home to their mistresses photographs of the babies entrusted to their care. The wheeled contraption next to the nanny is the photographer's portable darkroom used for developing the photograph on the spot. From a series of 37 photographs published in the book,