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19th Century Street Art - Hand-Me-Downs, Street Children, Waif

Creator: Edith Farmiloe
Offered by: Robert Funk Fine Art

Description
19th Century Street Art - British children's book author and illustrator Edith Farmiloe depicts a waif-like girl - Cockney Gutter Imp - who is disheveled. The artist draws her in a stylized manner to bring out all of the charm and personality of the subject. Signed upper right. Elegantly matted but not framed. Provenance: Chris Beetles Gallery.
"Her sketches, from her observing children playing on the streets, were used in Events of the Season, which appeared first in Little Folks magazine in November 1895".
Here work is in the collection of the Royal Academy

From Wikipedia,
Edith Farmiloe (1870–1921) was a British children's book author and illustrator, active from 1895 to about 1905.
Life

Edith Caroline Parnell was born in Gillingham, Kent, England, in 1870. Her father was Colonel Hon. Arthur Parnell (1841–1914) and her mother was Mary Anne Dunn.

On 7 April 1891, Edith married Venerable William Farmiloe, then vicar of St Peter's in Great Windmill Street, Soho, London. She was living with her husband at 124 Ashley Gardens, opposite Westminster Cathedral in 1901 and was by then listed in the census as an "artist'". In 1905, Rev. Farmiloe and his wife moved to South Hackney where he became vicar of St. Augustine's overlooking Victoria Park.
The Standard described All the World Over (1898) as "a pretty volume, brightly illustrated, representing funny children in the costumes of many countries."The Pall Mall Gazette called Rag, Tag, and Bobtail (1989) "one of the few books which deserve a place on the shelves of every (nursery) library." In its review of Piccalilli (1900), the same newspaper wrote that Farmiloe "has an exact eye for the humour and pathos of the children of the street, and her drawings are amazingly true to life, fresh, piquant, and convincing." A review in The Graphic described Chapel Street Children (1900) as "a book which will delight children of any age," adding that Farmiloe is "second to none in her delineations of Cockney gutter imps."

All the World Over London (East) – The Diamond Jubilee
Selected works

All the World Over (1898) with verses by writer E. V. Lucas[4]
The Bad family : & other stories (1898) with E. Fenwick
'Chousers' and other stories (1898) with Society for Promotion of Christian Knowledge (SPCK)
Rag, Tag and Bobtail (1898) with her sister, writer Winifred Parnell
Piccalilli (1900)
Chapel Street Children (1900)
The bountiful lady - or, how Mary was changed from a very miserable little girl to a very happy one (1900) with writer Thomas Cobb and other illustrators
Little Citizens (1901) with Society for Promotion of Christian Knowledge (SPCK)
Young George - his Life (1902)
Mr and Mrs Tiddliwinks (1902), with Society for Promotion of Christian Knowledge (SPCK)
One Day (1903) with other writers
Mr Biddle and the Dragon (1904)
Elizabeth over-the-Way (1905)
Our Darlings (1910) with writers W. Davenport Adams, Catharine Shaw, and other illustrators, Harry B. Neilson, Louis Wain

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Period:	19th Century
Materials:	Pen and ink on paper
Condition:	Good. Overall good condition - light toning around the perimeter - light smudge center right otherwise presents well.
Creation Date:	1895
Styles / Movements:	Realism, Victorian, Black & White
Incollect Reference #:	704811

Dimensions

W.	2.75 in;	H.	5.25 in;
W.	6.99 cm;	H.	13.34 cm;

Message from Seller:

You'll find an eclectic group of art works at Robert Funk Fine Art. 45 years of experience has shaped Director Robert Funk's multi-perspective approach to presenting art. As an undergrad in painting, he studied with great teachers such as first-generation abstract expressionist Robert Richenburg and hyper-realist painter Janet Fish. In Graduate School he worked with famed critic E.C. Goossen and went on to work as a Photographer, New York Advertising Art Director, and Art Collector.