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"Spending a Sou." Illustrated London News, 4 December 1858: 518-519.

"SPENDING A SOU.” BY MISS REBECCA SOLOMONS. {sic}
Miss Rebecca Solomons has a very telling little picture in the Winter Exhibition, Pall-mall, entitled “Spending a Sou,” of which we give an Engraving. It has obviously been studied from real life in the market-place of some little town in the north of France. There sits the venerable fruitwoman, under her capacious umbrella of dubious plum-coloured cotton. Her wares have tempted a small child in quaint attire, and with close skullcap on her little round head, after the fashion of the country, and who is about to make a purchase, determined to have her sou’s worth for her sou. Near at hand is the child’s mother, who piles her distaff as she walks; and nearer the spectator the young lady’s brother, whose hands dive hopelessly into his pockets, which, alas! are empty. This is of a class of works which are sure to find admirers amongst young and old. (p.518)

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