Buckingham Palace, London mb-artistname John Bacon View of buildings

View of buildings

with women of fashion wearing enormous hoop skirts with pulley operated lifting devices

A child falls to its death from the arms of its drunk mother who sits with ulcerated legs

with a busy street scene and construction work being undertaken in the foreground

Buckingham Palace, London mb-artistname John Bacon View of buildingsBuckingham Palace, London, 1839. View showing Queen Victoria returning from the House of Lords in the right hand middle distance, the front of Buckingham Palace, and the Marble Arch in its original position. In the foreground a range of fashionably dressed men, women and children can be seen.