Sufferers from the Floods
Cleveland Museum of Art

Sufferers from the Floods

John Thomson (Scottish, 1837–1921) · 1877

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Cleveland Museum of Art

Annual tidal overflow of the Thames River flooded less prosperous areas of London, leaving behind “a trail of misery . . . and a damp, noxious, fever-breeding atmosphere.”

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