Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00012621Covent Garden Labourers
by John Thomson
About the Artwork
Covent Garden workers, whose day started before 5 a.m., were divided into job-workers or odd-men—who were paid for each parcel they delivered and thus received little income in the off-seasons—and a much smaller group of salaried workers who were paid year-round to create arrangements and stock and help run the stalls.
Inscriptions
Stamped in red ink on recto of mount: “COVENT GARDEN LABOURERS.”
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: 11.4 x 8.6 cm (4 1/2 x 3 3/8 in.); Paper: 11.4 x 8.6 cm (4 1/2 x 3 3/8 in.); Mounted: 27 x 20.7 cm (10 5/8 x 8 1/8 in.)
- Type
- Photograph
- Classification
- Photograph
- Department
- Photography
- Credit line
- Photography Discretionary Fund
- Accession no.
- 2019.53
More by John Thomson in museum collections
Open-access museum record · AT-00012621
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