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Covent Garden Flower Women
John Thomson1877
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
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.
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- Title: Covent Garden Flower Women
- Creator: John Thomson (Scottish, 1837-1921)
- Date Created: 1877
- Physical Dimensions: Image: 11 x 7.9 cm (4 5/16 x 3 1/8 in.); Paper: 11 x 7.9 cm (4 5/16 x 3 1/8 in.); Mounted: 27.1 x 20.8 cm (10 11/16 x 8 3/16 in.)
- Provenance: (Antiquariat Dr. Jens Mattow, Berlin, Germany), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Photograph
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.49
- Medium: woodburytype
- Series: Street Life in London
- Inscriptions: Stamped in red ink on recto of mount: “COVENT GARDEN FLOWER WOMEN.”
- Fun Fact: These are the real-life counterparts of Eliza Doolittle in the musical <em>My Fair Lady</em>, who started out selling flowers in Covent Garden.
- Department: Photography
- Culture: England, 19th century
- Credit Line: Photography Discretionary Fund
- Collection: PH - British 19th Century
- Accession Number: 2019.49
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