TitlePortrait of a Young Vendor
Artist
George Henry Hall
(American, 1825 - 1913)
Date1890
MediumGraphite, squared for transfer, on blue wove paper
DimensionsSheet size: 12 1/16 × 8 3/4 in.
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, Gift of Samuel Tarlton, 1984
Object number1984.62
Label TextDuring the 19th century, a number of American artists depicted young street vendors. These works featured poor boys and girls engaged in a variety of enterprising activities, and reveal the wide range of social and artistic attitudes toward the children of the burgeoning urban poor. Hall’s drawing was created in Rome in 1890.
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