Sujet

Fisherman's cottage in the Isle of Man, 1881. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Fisherman's cottage in the Isle of Man, 1881. 'It has been observed that the Manx people subsist, to a large extent, upon the great herring fishery in its season, which employs at least six hundred boats and nearly four thousand men and boys of this island, besides an equal number of English and Irish fishers. The pursuit also of cod and ling, in the winter and spring, and the taking of lobsters on the rocky ground about the Calf of Man, help to support the insular population...Our Artist has sketched the interior of a cottage, with the female and infant members of the family, belonging to one of these hardy "toilers of the sea," who is probably out all night in quest of the finny prey. There is a cat - but not one of the Manx, or tailless, breed - clambering upon the table in this household scene. The genuine "rumpy" species, which is supposed to have been introduced by the wreck of a ship of the Armada on Spanish Head, being apparently identical with the old Barbary cat, is no longer very common in the Isle of Man, though it may still be met with, and sometimes in a wild condition'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM25A43_139

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NA

Property release

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

46,2Mo (4,4Mo) / 41,5cm x 27,9cm / 4903 x 3297 (300dpi)

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