M0003632: The Lock Hospital, Southwark

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Portrait of Charles Kingsley, novelist.

Photograph of an etching of the Lock Hospital, in Kent Street, Southwark. The illustration shows the chapel, and below, a detail of the plaque over the door. Etching after Whichelo, 1813. The hospital was meant for those with leprosy.

October 1933

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8 x 11 cm

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

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