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.