John Thomson
Caney the Clown

ArtistScottish, 1837–1921
CultureBritish
Titles
  • Caney the Clown
  • from the series Street Life in London
Date1876
PlaceLondon, England
MediumWoodburytype
DimensionsImage: 4 9/16 × 3 1/2 in. (11.6 × 8.9 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 number2004.708
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 below image, recto: " "CANEY" THE CLOWN."

[no inscriptions verso]
There is no evident signature.

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