John Thomson
The Street Locksmith

ArtistScottish, 1837–1921
CultureBritish
Titles
  • The Street Locksmith
  • from the series Street Life in London
Date1876
MediumWoodburytype
DimensionsImage: 4 1/2 × 3 1/2 in. (11.4 × 8.9 cm)
Mount: 10 5/8 × 8 1/8 in. (27 × 20.7 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Brown Foundation Accessions Endowment Fund, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2004.715
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance[Manfred Heiting, Malibu, California]; purchased by MFAH, 2004.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Printed in red, recto, below image: THE STREET LOCKSMITH.
There is no evident signature.

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