Westminster stairs 1872 Frame:gold Sylivia Pankhurst addressing a crowd

Sylivia Pankhurst addressing a crowd outside the headquarters of the East London Federation of Suffragettes

each as big as Gibralter

The artist has given the congregation rather stereotypical features

The districts covered are London Fields

These portraits of leading society figures are juxtaposed with a crowd of caricatured Londoners

Westminster stairs 1872 Frame:gold Sylivia Pankhurst addressing a crowdAn illustration of steam boats, full of Boat Race spectators, at Westminster Stairs, from 'London: a Pilgrimage' by Blanchard Jerrold and Gustave Dor, 1872. Jerrold questions: 'Is it possible that this tremendous rush along both banks of the river; this block of a dozen bridges, this unbroken water procession and these moving steamers massed to the funnels with humanity can all be provoked by a single contention among a score of University students?'