Sujet

Stern of fishing-boat, 1881. Creator: Wallis Mackay.

Légende

Stern of fishing-boat, 1881. 'I, with much pretence of knowing my own business, wandered down to the water's edge and looked at the fishing-boats, with their strange build and gear (of which more at another time): on the stern of each was the legend bearing the name of the craft. I was puzzled to see that four out of every six bore the title of "St. Patrick," printed backwards, exactly after the manner of my Sketch. My only solution of it is this, that, like Charles Dickens's strong memory of seeing the words "Coffee-room" reversed upon the panel of the room where he performed his meagre boyish meal and read the legend "moor eeffoc," so some local genius of the Claddagh, having studied the name of the patron saint from the wrong side of the church window, had instituted the strange legend that may be seen on two thirds of the fishing- craft in Galway Bay'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM25A43_040

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Droits gérés

Format disponible

1,8Mo (142,3Ko) / 38,2cm x 20,6cm / 1082 x 585 (72dpi)

Mots clés

transport transportation boat boats arts country art British Ireland Irish fishing boats fishing boat location century Britain newspapers press print position mirror image Galway B&W backwards NAME names metaphor engraved engraving County Galway Back To Front 19th century water transport black & white black and white B W Connacht nineteenth century The Print Collector Illustrated London News TGN wood engraving back-to-front ILN newspaper named 19th-century The Illustrated London News Wallis Mackay Mackay Wallis