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Old Furniture and Convent Garden Laborers

John Thomson

Artwork Details

Old Furniture and Convent Garden Laborers
1877-1878
John Thomson
photogravure on Lana Gravure paper
20 x 16 ¼ in. (50.8 x 41.28 cm);4 7/16 x 3 3/8 in. (11.27 x 8.57 cm);4 3/8 x 3 ¼ in. (11.11 x 8.25 cm)
Gift of Howard and Margaret Bond
2019/1.304.14

Description

Physical Description:

Two images are printed onto the same paper, stacked vertically. In the top image, a young girl stands at a street corner talking to a sitting woman. To their left, a man stands in a dark doorway behind chairs set out on the street. In the bottom image, a suited man carries a wide circular basket on his head as two others look on. A fourth man kneels among them, tending to something in a wooden box.

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