A row of houses, shored up and in course of demolition, the steeple of St. Mary-le-Strand rises above them towards the right. In the middle house are the inscriptions; MIDNIGHT SOUP, THE SALVATION ARMY FOOD DEPOT, FOOD. The tall chimney-pot, 42 mm from the left end of the plate, is roughly indicated by three long lines which do not meet at the top.
Title from catalogue raisonné.
Dodgson number: 231, I.
Notes (date):
Date from catalogue raisonné.
Made from a drawing of the same date as Clare Market (Dodgson No. 147, but the plate was made a year or more later (1904?). It remained unprinted till the summer of 1916, when the alterations constituting states II to V were made.
Notes (citation):
Dodgson, Campbell. "Continuation of Etchings & Dry Points by Muirhead Bone. I. 1898-1907 : A Catalogue by Campbell Dodgson." Obach & Co., 1909, London.
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