Nameless and Friendless, from "Illustrated London News"
July 12, 1862
Medium
Wood engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 10 1/8 × 12 15/16 in. (25.7 × 32.9 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Donato Esposito, 2013
Accession Number
2013.609.7
Tags
Art Historical Context
**Nameless and Friendless a poignant wood engraving from the July 12, 1862, issue of *Illustrated London*, is attributed to Emily Mary Osborn, Edward Skill likely responsible for the engraving. Created during the Victorian era, this print captures a scene of quiet desperation amid the bustling streets of London, featuring tagged as boys, men, and women—oking themes of isolation and hardship. Osborn, a trailblazing female artist in a male-dominated field, drew from social realism to highlight the struggles of the overlooked, making this work a window into 19th-century urban poverty and gender i...
About the Artist
Edward Skill|Emily Mary Osborn (British|British) · 1831 |1828 –1878 |1925
British, London 1831–1878 Stockholm|British, London 1828–1925 London