London Types: Sandwich Man
Medium
color lithograph
Dimensions
image: 25.5 × 23.1 cm · sheet: 32.7 × 27.6 cm
Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of John Bonebrake
Accession Number
2010.620
Tags
male
About this artwork
London Types celebrates the affection residents felt for their city at the end of the 19th century. The series includes many depictions of women because the publisher William Heinemann, a strong supporter of the struggle for equality, advised the artist to represent both sexes equally. The scenes document London of the 1890s with contemporary references. For example, the Sandwich Man advertises a vast painting of the Ecce Homo by the Hungarian artist Mihály Munkácsy, which was on view at the Dow...