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Pearly King collecting money Empire Day
Gift Eric and Louise Franck London Collection 2013





adults
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<p>The charitable tradition of Pearly Kings and Queens, which continues today, originated in Victorian London. They evolved from ‘Coster Kings and Queens’, elected leaders of London’s street vendors, who traded independently but collected for fellow traders who had fallen on hard times. The pearly buttons were an imitation of fashionable dress in 20th-century high society.</p><p><em>Gallery label, November 2019</em></p>
paper print photograph gelatin silver
27 July 2012 – 16 September 2012
2012-09-16
27 July 2012 – 16 September 2012
2012-09-16
2012-07-27
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2012-07-27
Another London
Exhibition
18 February 2014 – 20 April 2014
2014-04-20
18 February 2014 – 20 April 2014
2014-04-20
2014-02-18
Multimedia Art Museum (Moscow, Russia)
2014-02-18
Photography - Franck Collection
Loan-out
5 June 2019 – 26 July 2020
2020-07-26
5 June 2019 – 29 July 2019
2019-07-29
2019-06-05
Musée National d’Art Moderne - Centre Pompidou (Paris, France)
http://www.centrepompidou.fr
20 November 2019 – 15 March 2020
2020-03-15
2019-11-20
Tate Modern (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
21 April 2020 – 26 July 2020
2020-07-26
2020-04-21
J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, USA)
2019-06-05
Dora Maar
Exhibition
5 June 2019 – 23 May 2021
2021-05-23
5 June 2019 – 29 July 2019
2019-07-29
2019-06-05
Musée National d’Art Moderne - Centre Pompidou (Paris, France)
http://www.centrepompidou.fr
2019-06-05
Dora Maar
Loan-out
Pearly King collecting money for the Empire Day
image: 273 × 235 mm
Gift Eric and Louise Franck London Collection 2013





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<p>The charitable tradition of Pearly Kings and Queens, which continues today, originated in Victorian London. They evolved from ‘Coster Kings and Queens’, elected leaders of London’s street vendors, who traded independently but collected for fellow traders who had fallen on hard times. The pearly buttons were an imitation of fashionable dress in 20th-century high society.</p>
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adults architecture celebration charity clothing and personal items dress: fantasy/fancy emotions, concepts and ideas England formal qualities hat, cap health and welfare history jacket leisure and pastimes London - non-specific man music and entertainment objects Pearly King people photographic placard places politics and society reading, writing, printed matter society society: British Empire society: Empire Day, 1935 townscape townscapes / man-made features UK countries and regions UK London