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A bearded man walking the streets with his hat under his arm deeply engrossed in reading a book Wall Art
ART BY: John Thomas Smith
A bearded man walking the streets with his hat under his arm deeply engrossed in reading a book Wall Art
ART BY: John Thomas Smith
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A bearded man walking the streets with his hat under his arm deeply engrossed in reading a book is an etchings by John Thomas Smith (1766–1833), dated 31 December 1815. The source scan comes from the Wellcome Collection, and the file offered here measures 3674 × 6000 px (5.1 MB). It is filed under Prints and Neoclassicism, in portrait format. Archive Lane holds 116 works by John Thomas Smith, a British artist.
John Thomas Smith, also known as Antiquity Smith, was an English painter, engraver and antiquarian. He wrote a life of the sculptor Joseph Nollekens, that was noted for its "malicious candour", and was a keeper of prints for the British Museum.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). All works by John Thomas Smith →
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