The "Echo" Boy · At the 1884 Whitechapel Exhibition

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Title: The "Echo" Boy
Actual Title: Tom Harri(e)s as a Boy
Artist: Miss Dorothy Tennant
Artist Full Name: Dorothy Tennant [later Lady Stanley] (1855-1926)
Date (Painted or Exhibited): 1883
Type: Oil on canvas
Size (HxW mm): 360 x 265
Current Location: Neath Port Talbot Library Headquarters, Neath, Wales: NEA_PCF1
Lent By: the Artist
Catalog Number: 70
Catalog Page: 11
Curators Notes: The painting is, in all likelihood, the one shown in the 1884 exhibition. The Echo was the name of the newspaper for Cardiff and South Wales which launched in 1880; newspaper sellers would stand on street corners shouting, “Echo!”
Alt-Text: A painted portrait of a young boy with rosy cheeks wearing a brown hat and dark clothing, gazing softly forward with a neutral expression against a muted, dark background.
Image Credit: Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council, Neath