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Photographs

Clothing the Naked; Feeding the Hungry

Type: Photographs(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1908
Accession number: 2000.5.2721a
Makers: Morris and Company(Opens in new tab) (British, 1861–1940); Unknown, British(Opens in new tab) (British)
Designer: John Henry Dearle(Opens in new tab) (British, 1860–1932)
Dimensions: 6 1/2 x 4 in. (16.5 x 10.2 cm.) mount (page of album): 10 1/2 x 8 3/8 in. (26.7 x 21.3 cm.)
Medium: photograph
Description: Two lights. Left light: figure in rags seated at right, figure at left, standing, offering cover to her. Right light: male figure standing at right, holding basket of food, reaching in with right hand to offer food to woman at lower left, who is holding an infant and reaching up with left hand. Landscape background.
Credit: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Department: European Art
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