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Description: | The Newcastle artist Ralph Hedley painted several pictures of child street sellers. In the late Victorian period, hundreds of children worked selling things in the streets in Newcastle. However, Hedley's models were children from local families he knew, rather than actual street children. The newspaper-seller's face is painted with tiny dots of strong colour, including bright red and blue. The picture reflects Victorian taste for sentiment, detail and bright colour, as well as concern for the plight of poor working people. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | art movement work artists living in the North East watercolours art North East artists children | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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