The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of March 25, 2024
Covent Garden Flower Women
1877
(Scottish, 1837–1921)
Image: 11 x 7.9 cm (4 5/16 x 3 1/8 in.); Paper: 11 x 7.9 cm (4 5/16 x 3 1/8 in.); Mounted: 27.1 x 20.8 cm (10 11/16 x 8 3/16 in.)
Photography Discretionary Fund 2019.49
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
These are the real-life counterparts of Eliza Doolittle in the musical My Fair Lady, who started out selling flowers in Covent Garden.Description
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.- (Antiquariat Dr. Jens Mattow, Berlin, Germany)March 4, 2019The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- {{cite web|title=Covent Garden Flower Women|url=false|author=John Thomson|year=1877|access-date=25 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
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