1-646-087 - The London Archives (City of London)/Heritage Images

Scene in Covent Garden, Westminster, London, 1830. 'One of the afflicting occurrences in life in London, Tom, Jerry and Logic arrested in their progress home by the melancholy discovery of Corinthian Kate in the last stage of consumption, disease & inebriety'. Under the piazzas of Covent Garden a woman is lying in the arms of a man while other figures look on.