The Crossing Sweeper
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The Crossing Sweeper is an 1858 painting by William Powell Frith
which has been described as breaking "new ground in its description of the collision of wealth and poverty on a London street."
William Powell Frith
William Powell Frith , was an English painter specialising in genre subjects and panoramic narrative works of life in the Victorian era. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1852...
which has been described as breaking "new ground in its description of the collision of wealth and poverty on a London street."