page_title: Dublin Streets: a Vendor of Books
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Dublin Streets: a Vendor of Books / Description
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context_page_description: Dublin Streets: a Vendor of Books is an 80 x 90 cm oil on canvas painting by the Irish artist Walter Osborne, completed in 1889 and housed in the National Gallery of Ireland. It is one of a series of paintings Osborne made at the time emphasising the plight and hardships of Dublin's poor.
context_section_description: The painting shows a bookseller's stall, set up on Eden Quay, looking eastwards towards O'Connell Bridge with a hazy impressionistic view of James Gandon’s Custom house. A mother leaning against the wall holds a child in her arms. She looks tired and anxious, and appears to be connected with the young barefoot girl who approaches the bookseller's customers, offering daffodils for sale. That they have been unsuccessful attracting buyers is indicated by the basket full of flowers on the ground by the woman.
  Other details in the bustling scene include traffic (horses, carts and pedestrians) passing over O'Connell Bridge, and a barge and skiff just coming into view as they travel up the River Liffey. To the right of the main figures are a number of horse-drawn carts awaiting fares. A number of men wearing kilts gather at a corner.
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