Covent Garden Flower Women
Medium
woodburytype
Dimensions
image: 11 × 7.9 cm · mounted: 27.1 × 20.8 cm
Classification
Photograph
Department
Photography
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Photography Discretionary Fund
Accession Number
2019.49
Tags
male
About this artwork
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.