a. The Widow’s Mite b. "The Inconvenience of Single Life" by Erskine Nicol
a. The Widow’s Mite b. "The Inconvenience of Single Life" by Erskine Nicol
a. The Widow’s Mite b. "The Inconvenience of Single Life" by Erskine Nicol
a. The Widow’s Mite b. "The Inconvenience of Single Life" by Erskine Nicol

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a. The Widow’s Mite b. "The Inconvenience of Single Life" by Erskine Nicol ,

ca. 1850s–60s

British photographer
x1993-9 a-b

Information

Title
a. The Widow’s Mite b. "The Inconvenience of Single Life" by Erskine Nicol
Dates

ca. 1850s–60s

Medium
Albumen prints
Dimensions
a: 14.2 × 10.6 cm (5 9/16 × 4 3/16 in.) b: 8.3 × 6.2 cm (3 1/4 × 2 7/16 in.) mount: 22.4 x 19 cm. (8 13/16 x 7 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, anonymous gift
Object Number
x1993-9 a-b
Place Made

Europe, England

Inscription
a. In ink on page, upper right corner: 26 Titled in ink in unknown hand on page, below image center: The Widow’s Mite Inscribed in ink, lower right corner: Dubuffe [sic] b. Titled in ink in unknown hand on page, below image center: Mighty Inconvenient
Culture
British
Type
albumen process, photographs, black-and-white photographs
Techniques
mounting, albumen process
Subject
infants, boys, girls, figures (representations), rooms, men, portraits, churches, women, poverty, genre

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