Covent Garden Market, with Portico of St. Paul's Church, from In Thackeray's London

Prints and Drawings

c. 1913

Francis Hopkinson Smith
American, 1838-1915

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Francis Hopkinson Smith
Title: Covent Garden Market, with Portico of St. Paul's Church, from In Thackeray's London
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1912–1913
Medium: Charcoal, with gray pastel and white chalk and stumping, heightened with touches of white gouache, on light gray laid paper with blue fibers laid down on wood pulp board
Inscriptions: Signed recto lower left, on primary support, in charcoal: “F Hopkinson Smith”; inscribed lower right, in graphite: (illegible); inscribed in another hand, lower left, on secondary support, in graphite: “Covent Garden Market with portico of St. Paul’s Church”
Dimensions: Primary support: 50 × 69.3 cm (19 11/16 × 27 5/16 in.); Secondary support: 52.7 × 71.4 cm (20 3/4 × 28 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Waller Fund
Reference Number: 1914.381

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