Covent Garden Flower Women
1877
- Medium
- woodburytype
- Dimensions
- 11 × 7.9 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-192277
Thomson’s collaborator, reporter Adolphe Smith said that “The familiar sight of a poor woman holding a pale child in her arms and offering modest violets to the pedestrian, is pregnant with a poetry which rags, and dirt fail to obliterate.” The jobs, which were passed down between generations, required worked long hours and yielded a meager income.
Provenance
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Photography Discretionary Fund, 2019.49
Registry history
- 1877 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — photographs
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