Cleveland Museum of Art
Covent Garden Flower Women
John ThomsonLinkedCulture matchlcp-9763a45e8186
- Date
- 1877
- Medium
- woodburytype
- Culture
- England, 19th century
- Department
- Photography
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 325420
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
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. These are the real-life counterparts of Eliza Doolittle in the musical My Fair Lady , who started out selling flowers in Covent Garden.
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- Credit line
- Photography Discretionary Fund
- Provenance
- (Antiquariat Dr. Jens Mattow, Berlin, Germany) | March 4, 2019: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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