Street Advertising
1876
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1876
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Street Advertising is a 1876 by John Thomson, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see two men pasting a large poster onto a brick wall in a London alley. The poster advertises Madame Tussaud’s wax museum, which still exists today. This photo was part of one of the first books to show real street life through pictures, not just words. To see more early photographs of everyday people, look up *england, 19th century*.
The poster being pasted up by the two men in the late 1870s is an ad for Mme. Tussaud’s London, a museum of wax figures that is still in business today. The image was part of John Thomson’s publication Street Life in London , a group of essays and photographsthat was one of the first published compilations of social documentary photographs. It holds a place of honor in the histories of photography, the book, ethnology, and sociology.
Mme. Tussaud’s wax museum in London was founded in 1835.
Read the full account in the museum source.
John Thomson painted Scottish landscapes in oil, focusing on the rugged terrain around the Trossachs and Selkirkshire.
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