COMMUNIST REFUGEES’ CO-OPERATIVE KITCHEN 1872 George Montbard ANTIQUE ENGRAVING

Original 11 7/8 inch x 8 3/4 inch Engraving titled THE COMMUNIST REFUGEES’ CO-OPERATIVE KITCHEN IN NEWMAN PASSAGE.

Newman Passage is perhaps most famous for its starring role in the film Peeping Tom. In the opening scene, a prostitute picks up a customer in the passage before, being murdered above the pub.
In the late 19th Century Bloomsbury crawled with anarchists, radicals and other political types. Newman Passage housed a co-operative kitchen for communist refugees.

Illustration by George Montbard (!841 - 1905). A French illustrator and caricaturist.

From The Graphic February 3rd, 1872
The Graphic was a British weekly illustrated newspaper, first published on 4 December 1869 by William Luson Thomas's company Illustrated Newspapers Limited. It continued to be published weekly under this title until 23 April 1932 and then changed title to The National Graphic between 28 April and 14 July 1932; it then ceased publication, after 3,266 issues.

Page size 15 1/2 inch x 11 1/2 inch

The engraving is in very good condition. Printed text on the reverse.