Photographs
Covent Garden Flower Women
Genre ScenePhotograph
Details
- Author / creator
- John Thomson (Scottish, 1837–1921)
- Object type
- Photograph
- Date or period
- 1877
- Dimensions summary
- Image: 11 × 7.9 cm; Paper: 11 × 7.9 cm; Mounted: 27.1 × 20.8 cm
- Photo process
- Other
- Studio or series
- John Thomson
- Image rights
- Public domain (CC0)
About this object
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.
Materials and technique
Woodburytype
Signature and marks
Stamped in red ink on recto of mount: “COVENT GARDEN FLOWER WOMEN.”
