The Whitecross Street Prison for debtors, London stippled lace shirt and knee-britches

lace shirt and knee-britches

the harlot's handsome young lover has cost her an easy life with her Jewish protector and she is now in a Drury Lane lodging house

The individual buildings are identified

near Field Lane

Others lean out of windows

The Whitecross Street Prison for debtors, London stippled lace shirt and knee-britchesThe Whitecross Street Prison for debtors, London, 1843. Two interior views of the refuge for the destitute at Whitecross Street Prison, showing the male and female wards. The women and children are upstairs, with wooden cots along one wall. The scene is gloomy and miserable, and there are no smoking signs.