John Thomson
A Convicts' Home

ArtistScottish, 1837–1921
CultureBritish
Titles
  • A Convicts' Home
  • from the series Street Life in London
Date1876
PlaceLondon, England
MediumWoodburytype
DimensionsImage: 3 1/2 × 4 9/16 in. (8.9 × 11.6 cm)
Mount: 8 3/16 × 10 11/16 in. (20.8 × 27.1 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Brown Foundation Accessions Endowment Fund, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2004.701
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance[Manfred Heiting, Malibu, California]; purchased by MFAH, 2004.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Printed in red below image, recto: A CONVICTS' HOME.

[no inscriptions verso]
There is no evident signature.

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