Breakfasting Out 1859 Ephemera Twenty Straws

Twenty Straws

A century after the Industrial Revolution began

This hand drawn design features illustrations of objects from the museum's extensive Suffragette collection

The Telegraph building was the most prominent in Fleet Street until it was upstaged by the black glass Daily Express building in 1932

Breakfasting Out 1859 Ephemera Twenty StrawsA Coffee Stall. Oil on canvas. A baker's man, a boy wearing a City of London badge, seated in a wheelbarrow, and a young lady carrying a band box are shown with cups of coffee, while the proprietress is washing up. On the left is a ragged girl with a broom, evidently a crossing sweeper, and a woman with a basket on her head. The painting was acquired by the London Museum as a work by Charles Hunt and is signed and dated accordingly at bottom left.