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A black man in ragged clothes moving with the aid of crutches holds out his hat to beg for alms while wearing a miniature ship on his head Wall Art
ART BY: John Thomas Smith
A black man in ragged clothes moving with the aid of crutches holds out his hat to beg for alms while wearing a miniature ship on his head Wall Art
ART BY: John Thomas Smith
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About this artwork
A black man in ragged clothes moving with the aid of crutches holds out his hat to beg for alms while wearing a miniature ship on his head 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 3910 × 6000 px (4.9 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.
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A black man in ragged clothes moving with the aid of crutches holds out his hat to beg for alms while wearing a miniature ship on his head is free to preview at web resolution. The original high-resolution file is a one-time purchase, or included with an Archive Lane membership (up to 1,000 high-resolution downloads per day) — and the artwork can also be ordered as a made-to-order print.
