Find thousands of books, manuscripts, visual materials and unpublished archives from our collections, many of them with free online access.
Search for free, downloadable images taken from our library and museum collections, including paintings, illustrations, photos and more.
Mary Brotherton encounters Old Sally, a woman on the moor. Line block after R.W. Buss, 1840.
- Buss, Robert William, 1804-1875
- Date
- [1840]
- Reference
- 31894i
- Pictures
- Online
Available online
Licence
Public Domain Mark
You can use this work for any purpose without restriction under copyright law.
Public Domain Mark (PDM) terms and conditions https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0
Credit: Mary Brotherton encounters Old Sally, a woman on the moor. Line block after R.W. Buss, 1840. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark
Selected images from this work
About this work
Description
Mary Brotherton encounters Old Sally, a woman who lives on the moor outside the Deep Valley factory. She had escaped from the factory to live in a hole and pray to the sun to be so kind as not to wake her the next morning. She is described as "A poor frail shattered remnant of humanity with a disordered wit" and as "the maniac" (p. 41; her story p. 42)
Publication/Creation
[England?] : [publisher not identified], [1840]
Physical description
1 print : line block ; image 14.4 x 10 cm
Contributors
Lettering
"I am the only old woman in the world! All the rest get their death in the factories!" RW Buss
Reference
Wellcome Library no. 31894i
Type/Technique
Languages
- English
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores