Sujet

Cutting Turf, and Preparing it for the Rick, 1850. Creator: Smyth.

Légende

Cutting Turf, and Preparing it for the Rick, 1850. Making peat charcoal at Derrymullen, Kildare, Ireland: '... two skenes are used to chop or make a long incision in the bank or bench from which the turf is taken with one forward thrust or cut; and the other having the side of it so turned up as to enable the man cutting with it to take out a perfectly square turf, measuring six by four inches: he then throws it to another man, who stands on a platform raised over the bank; and he flings it to a third, who...passes it to women and girls, who pile the pieces up, and place them on what are technically called "short clamps"...These "clamps" consist of hurdles at equal distances from each other, so as to admit of the air passing through them, and thus causing the turf to dry in a much less time than if placed, as heretofore, on the ground'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM22A36_473

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

67,5Mo (4,1Mo) / 42,0cm x 40,3cm / 4960 x 4757 (300dpi)

Mots clés

female women woman people male work employment job man men cutting worker country society guy occupation British Ireland Irish bog fuel rustic workmen workman location Victorian century Britain profession newspapers press concept drying B&W peat engraved engraving charcoal 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century County Kildare Kildare rural workers The Print Collector Illustrated London News rural life TGN ILN newspaper Rogers Smyth Regionalism working man peat cutting 19th-century Bog of Allen Derrymullen Irish Amelioration Society Jasper W. Rogers Jasper W.