Title

Sketches in Madrid: the Water Supply of Madrid, 1876. Creator: C.R..

Caption

Sketches in Madrid: the Water Supply of Madrid, 1876. British opinion being expressed as to the personal hygiene of foreigners. '...the ordinary aspects of life in Madrid. ..filling of casks by the public apparatus for water supply, to answer the demands of a dry and sun-burnt population. Their use, indeed, of water for the purposes of cleanliness is not extravagantly large. Melons and other pulpy fruit will also help to assuage thirst, even in a climate that is always either scorching hot or bleakly cold, but where a refreshing temperature is seldom or never felt'. From "Illustrated London News", 1876.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM23A81_160

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48,4Mb (4,9Mb) / 16,5in x 11,4in / 4960 x 3414 (300dpi)

Keywords

Europe water people male man men arts country fountain fountains Spain Spanish art Madrid guy British color location century Britain newspapers press print concept barrel barrels filling B&W engraved engraving water supply drinking water Colour 19th century black & white black and white B W white and black nineteenth century The Print Collector Illustrated London News TGN ILN newspaper C.R. 19th-century