Art Funded
A Ghost Strayed from Old Greece
Reproduced by kind permission of Getty Images © Bert Hardy/Getty Images
Bert Hardy (1913 - 1995)
Cuming Museum
1948
This photograph was taken as part of a series depicting life in the heavily bombed Elephant and Castle district of London during the Second World War commissioned by the Picture Post magazine. The complete caption read 'A Ghost Strayed from Old Greece: Corinthian pillars in a Hogarthian slum. In the burnt out Metropolitan Tabernacle, Victorian preacher Spurgeon raised his warning voice on Thursdays and Sundays.'
- Medium: gelatin silver print
- Dimensions: 24.8 x 16.1cm
- Art Fund Grant: £1600 ( Total: £1,600)
- ArtFunded in: 2004
- Vendor: James Hyman Fine Art Ltd
Provenance
Family of A L Lloyd ('Picture Post' journalist); James Hyman Fine Art Ltd.
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