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Cast-Iron Billy

Series TitleStreet Life in London, part 8, September 1877
Artist John Thomson (Scottish, 1837 - 1921)
Date1877
MediumWoodburytype
DimensionsImage: 4 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches (11.43 x 8.89 cm)
Sheet: 11 x 8 1/2 inches (27.94 x 21.59 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2010.18.40.7.1
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DescriptionStreet scene of two men engaged in conversation at the door of a stage or omnibus; man on left has whip in hand, man on right is posed dramatically with one leg up on step.
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An Old Clothes' Shop, Seven Dials
John Thomson
1877
2010.18.40.4.3
Covent Gardens Labourers
John Thomson
1877
2010.18.40.5.3
"Strawberries, All Ripe!  All Ripe!"
John Thomson
1877
2010.18.40.7.3
"Mush-Fakers" and Ginger-Beer Makers
John Thomson
1877
2010.18.40.8.3
image overall
John Thomson
1877
2010.18.40.6.3
"Hookey Alf," of Whitechapel
John Thomson
1877
2010.18.40.9.2
A Convicts' Home
John Thomson
1877
2010.18.40.5.1
The Dramatic Show-Black
John Thomson
1877
2010.18.40.4.1
Sufferers from the Floods
John Thomson
1877
2010.18.40.1.2
Workers on the "Silent Highway"
John Thomson
1877
2010.18.40.7.2
The "Crawlers"
John Thomson
1877
2010.18.40.9.3
recto overall
John Thomson
1877
2010.18.40.8.1