John Thomson
Covent Garden Labourers

ArtistScottish, 1837–1921
CultureBritish
Titles
  • Covent Garden Labourers
  • from the series Street Life in London
Date1876
PlaceLondon, England
MediumWoodburytype
DimensionsImage: 4 1/2 × 3 3/8 in. (11.4 × 8.6 cm)
Sheet: 4 1/2 × 3 3/8 in. (11.4 × 8.6 cm)
Mount: 10 11/16 × 8 3/16 in. (27.1 × 20.8 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Brown Foundation Accessions Endowment Fund, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2004.718
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance[Manfred Heiting, Malibu, California]; purchased by MFAH, 2004.
Exhibition History“History of Photography I: Selections from the Museum's Collection,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, November 1, 2014–February 22, 2015.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
There is no evident signature.
Printed in red on mount recto: COVENT GARDEN LABOURERS.

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