The blind school, Southwark. Engraving by T. A. Prior, [c.1835], after D. McKewan.

  • McKewan, David Hall, 1816-1873.
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The blind school, Southwark. Engraving by T. A. Prior, [c.1835], after D. McKewan. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The School for the Indigent Blind was rebuilt in 1834 in the then fashionable neo-Gothic style

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London : Virtue & Co.

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1 print : engraving ; image 10.9 x 17.3 cm

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School for the Indigent Blind. ; D. McKewan. ; T. A. Prior. The group in front of the obelisk include a crossing sweeper. Leaning against the railings around the obelisk is a placard with a woman's face on it

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Not in B. Adams, London illustrated, London, 1983
Survey of London, XXV, St George's Fields, 1955, pl.32b

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Wellcome Collection 38853i

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