They have seen better Days

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	item:- Tullie House Museum : 1964.97.24.1 image:- ©  Tullie House Museum	click to enlarge
	Print, They have seen better Days, by Jacob Thompson, 1845-55, engraved by William Ballingall. Two families parting outside a thatched cottage. To right, a young husband stands at the roadside beneath a spreading tree with a bundle tied to a stick slung over his shoulder. His wife, who holds a baby in her arms, watches as her young daughter accepts a small loaf of bread offered by a little girl standing beside her grandmother who is seated in an upright armchair on the cottage's threshold. A second young woman, two children and a collie dog are grouped about her.
	inscription:-	signed bottom left on print JACOB THOMPSON (repeated beneath) JACOB THOMPSON
	inscription:-	printed bottom centre THEY HAVE SEEN BETTER DAYS
	inscription:-	signed & inscribed bottom right on print W. BALLINGALL SC (repeated beneath) WM. BALLINGALL
	wxh, image:-	195x133mm

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