Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00012620An Old Clothes Shop, Seven Dials
by John Thomson
About the Artwork
According to John Thomson’s collaborator, journalist Adolphe Smith, the dealers in this neighborhood were sources of last resort for those trying to sell items that had already been rejected by pawnbrokers. They were also where “the majority of those individuals who earn a promiscuous livelihood in the streets of London succeed in clothing themselves for a minimum outlay.”
Inscriptions
Stamped in red ink on recto of mount: “AN OLD CLOTHES SHOP, SEVEN DIALS.”
Provenance
(Antiquariat Dr. Jens Mattow, Berlin, Germany) March 4, 2019: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Photographs in Ink. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 20, 2022-April 2, 2023).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- John Thomson (Scottish, 1837–1921)
- Date
- 1877
- Medium
- woodburytype
- Dimensions
- Image: 11.5 x 9 cm (4 1/2 x 3 9/16 in.); Paper: 11.5 x 9 cm (4 1/2 x 3 9/16 in.); Mounted: 27.1 x 20.8 cm (10 11/16 x 8 3/16 in.)
- Type
- Photograph
- Classification
- Photograph
- Department
- Photography
- Credit line
- Photography Discretionary Fund
- Accession no.
- 2019.51
More by John Thomson in museum collections
Open-access museum record · AT-00012620
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