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Car Man and Coal Heaver

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Date

1848

Artist

Paul Gavarni (1804-1866)

Collection

Walters Art Museum

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http://art.thewalters.org/detail/10734

Description

Gavarni's contemporaries noted that he possessed an extraordinary ability to guess a person's profession from his appearance. This watercolor, which relates closely to a plate in "Londres et les Anglais" (translated: "London and the English," illustrated by Gavarni), depicts two men whose different occupations were indispensible to the mid-19th-century metropolis. On the left is the Car Man, whose wagons handled all the goods and deliveries needed by London's thriving marketplaces. Facing him with a tankard is the Coal Heaver, who delivered coal (used for heating and cooking) to all households.
(Released under the GNU Free Documentation License)
Inscription: [Signature] In graphite, lower left: Gavarni
Medium: watercolor, graphite, and crayon with white heightening on brown, moderately thick, slightly textured wove paper.
Credit line: Acquired by William T. Walters, 1866.

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CC0 1.0

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Image source: The Walters Art Museum

Location

London, England

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