Jacobs Island Rotherhithe 1887 Frame:black Exclusive to the Museum of

Exclusive to the Museum of London

Coloured advertisement for 'Harness' Electric Corsets'

With a flexibind journal-style cover

It was pulled down in 1890 and the carved oak front is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum

Sidney Crockett and William H

Jacobs Island Rotherhithe 1887 Frame:black Exclusive to the Museum ofIllustration to Dickens' novel: 'the strangest of the many strange places in London'. Signed (with monogram) and dated 1887. This watercolour features Jacob's Island, Rotherhithe. Dickens wrote about this area in Oliver Twist , ' In such a neighbourhood, beyond Dockhead in the Borough of Southwark, stands Jacob's Island, surrounded by a muddy ditch, six or eight feet deep and 15 or 20 wide when the tide is in, once called Mill Pond, but known in the