Sujet

The Crow-Boy's Christmas Lunch - drawn by Phiz, 1850. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

The Crow-Boy's Christmas Lunch - drawn by Phiz, 1850. Illustration to a story about a child who scares crows off the crops for a living: 'He has had it in his wallet all the morning - an extra store of bread, bacon, and cheese; for this is Christmas Day!...Observe him while engaged in its mastication His cheek is stuffed with the wholesome and savoury morsel; while his dog, with his lips overflowing with slaver, looks up expectantly into his face; and his gun lies idly by the hedge...His gun for this day, at any rate, shall sound no alarm. The season, too, makes the Boy charitable to the poor crows. Out of the treasury of his happiness he can afford to impart a blessing to them. They shall also have their Christmas Day; for though,by convention they are his victims, by Creation they are his fellow-creatures'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM22A36_287

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

52,1Mo (3,7Mo) / 31,1cm x 42,0cm / 3668 x 4960 (300dpi)

Mots clés

animal field fields food people male boy boys child children work job religious bird birds religion dog dogs occupation meal British eating Christianity lunch farmland Victorian century Britain profession newspapers press crows scarecrow concept christmas dinner cornfield B&W mealtime sentimental crow luncheon engraved engraving Corn Field 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century The Print Collector child labour Illustrated London News ILN christmas Hablot Knight Browne newspaper Unknown 19th-century Phiz Hablot Browne HK Phiz Browne Hablot K Browne Browne Hablot Knight crow-scarer