Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00012655Covent Garden Flower Women
by John Thomson
About the Artwork
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.
Inscriptions
Stamped in red ink on recto of mount: “COVENT GARDEN FLOWER WOMEN.”
Provenance
(Antiquariat Dr. Jens Mattow, Berlin, Germany) March 4, 2019: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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 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.)
- Type
- Photograph
- Classification
- Photograph
- Department
- Photography
- Credit line
- Photography Discretionary Fund
- Accession no.
- 2019.49
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