Name: Antique Print-WITHOUT-VICTORIAN-POVERTY-WINTER-STREET-CHILDREN-Gray-1865
SKU: PCO-1704
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Antique Print-WITHOUT-VICTORIAN-POVERTY-WINTER-STREET-CHILDREN-Gray-1865

€30.00

‘WITHOUT (CENTERED BELOW IMAGE); N.D. (LOWER LEFT)’

– A mother and her barefoot children stand shivering outside on snow-covered pavement near a glowing brazier, their clothing tattered and their expressions distressed. Strong visual contrast of warmth just out of reach. Likely intended to highlight urban poverty. Originally contrasted with a print titled “Within” that shows a wealthy mother and daughter.

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Description

Medium: Lithograph, hand-colored with gum arabic on wove (vellin) paper.

Sheet size: 16.2 x 21.3 cm (6.38 x 8.39 inch). Image size: 16.2 x 21.3 cm. (6.38 x 8.39 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Light creasing, foxing and soiling. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

VICTORIAN POVERTY, STREET CHILDREN, WINTER HARDSHIP, SOCIAL SATIRE, MORAL PRINT, BRAZIER, GENRE SCENE, 19TH CENTURY, URBAN POOR, SOCIAL COMMENTARY | PCO-E30-40

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

From Social Contrasts Portrayed in a Series of Twenty-Two Coloured Lithographic Plates From Pen and Ink Sketches by William Gray. London: William Oliver, 1865.

Biography engraver: William Gray was a 19th-century British illustrator and lithographer known for moralizing and satirical works. His best-known work, Social Contrasts, provided vivid commentary on class disparity in Victorian London.