Halfpenny Ices

Series TitleStreet Life in London, part 7, August 1877

Artist John Thomson (Scottish, 1837 - 1921)

Date1877

MediumWoodburytype

DimensionsImage and sheet: 4 9/16 × 3 9/16 inches (11.59 × 9.05 cm)
Mount: 11 × 8 3/8 inches (27.94 × 21.27 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation

Object number2010.18.40.6.1

Signednone

InscribedOn mount recto, bottom, in red type: "HALFPENNY ICES"

Markingsnone

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DescriptionSidewalk view of street vendor with wheeled cart and large crowd of children gathered around; boy in dark vest and white shirt sleeves on left side of frame; boy in center in act of eating ice cream cone.

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