Chelsea in 1872

Title

Chelsea in 1872

Artist

J. T. Landells

Lent By

Sir Charles Dilke, Bart., M. P.

Catalog Number

50

Catalog Page

8

Catalog Description

[Landells was an artist and correspondent on the Illustrated London News. He died in 1882.] / Well worth a ride in a penny steamer to see. Chelsea/ still helps us to/ Forget six centuries over hung with smoke,/ Forget the snorting steam and piston stroke,/ Forget the spreading of the hideous town;/ And to/ Think rather of the pack-horse on the down,/ And dream of London, small and white and clean,/ The clean Thames bordered by its gardens green./ W. Morris. // On the right of the picture as you look is Cheyne-row, where and in the adjoining Cheyne-walk, so many celebrated persons have lived--Carlyle, George Eliot, and D. G. Rossett.