Sujet

What Sixpence a Day Will Do-picture printed on fabric, 19th century. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

What Sixpence a Day Will Do-picture printed on fabric, 19th century. Additional Info: A printed picture of a didactic nature with a story entitled "What Sixpence a Day Will Do." An older man sits in front of an old people's home, and an elegant man stands next to him, writing something in his notebook. Below, there is a text in English about the presented characters. The older man boasted that all his life he spent a sixpence a day for alcohol, but he was never drunk. Meanwhile, the gentleman moved by his story calculated that, if he saved a sixpence a day, not only could he buy a house and a piece of land and live a prosperous life, he could also leave a large sum of money to his children and grandchildren.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM25A39_303

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

42,8Mo (4,2Mo) / 33,9cm x 31,7cm / 4000 x 3739 (300dpi)

Mots clés

exterior outdoors river portrait people male boy boys child children job man men planning age historical arts economics country money finance art guy occupation British museum geography retirement Poland financial polish poor poverty location century alternative Britain profession notebook lecture budgeting choice savings National Museum advice concept cotton advisor riverbank printing B&W three people printed adviser elderly man 19th century black & white black and white B W frugal nineteenth century history historic geographical feature sixpence old age outside portrait old man old men Unknown cotton financial advice Linen Painting Heritage Art 19th-century Cotton Thread National Museum in Krakow printing (process)