Sujet

The Famine in India: women grinding corn, 1874. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

The Famine in India: women grinding corn, 1874. 'This feminine use of the double grindstone...is of great antiquity in Ireland, as well as in India, and likewise in the Holy Land...it seems that there are thousands of women in Ireland, and millions in Bengal, who are still doomed to that primitive task of their sex. The man, their lord and husband - we here speak only of the Indian household - is seen in the background, sitting very much at his ease, and enjoying the fumes of his pipe. It may be, indeed, that this indolent gentleman is not their husband, but only their master. Perhaps in the other two men, whom we perceive with their shovels in the field beyond, these women may claim an interest beyond that of fellow-servants. However this may be, the scene is an instance of one of the commonest experiences in the domestic life of an Asiatic people'. From "Illustrated London News", 1874.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM25A32_477

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

41,2Mo (3,6Mo) / 31,2cm x 33,1cm / 3684 x 3908 (300dpi)

Mots clés

exterior outdoors food female women woman people child children work India family home Indian arts industry pipe country parent corn grain art clothes British traditional mother industrial smoking dress jewellery jewelry mill motherhood location disaster century bracelet bracelets Britain parenting catastrophe newspapers press clothing print childcare grinding concept famine sari saris typical maize sweetcorn water pipe hookah APPAREL B&W multitasking Indian Corn gender multi-tasking engraved engraving mum child care 19th century black & white black and white B W tobacco pipe sweet corn nineteenth century shortage shortages The Print Collector division of labour Hindoostan huqqa pipe Illustrated London News rural life TGN women at work wood engraving grinding mill ILN outside newspaper working grinding stone food supply Unknown huqqa Regionalism gender role 19th-century clothing & dress fashion & clothing nargilah The Illustrated London News Bengal famine of 1873-1874 Bihar famine of 1873-1874