Sujet
Sea Side Sketches - the Luxury of Idleness, 1883. Creator: Unknown.
Légende
Sea Side Sketches - the Luxury of Idleness, 1883. 'Persons who love the aspects of the sea, but dread the effect of its heaving and rolling billows on the equilibrium of their alimentary organs, can take their limited share of marine enjoyment without going afloat. They can lie supine or gracefully recline on the soft sands...with or without a book or a cigar, amongst the frolicking children, or pace the smooth promenade with dames and damsels of their company, and fancy themselves happier than in their city offices and shops. It is a lazy way of passing the holidays, and some there are who cannot endure it over the third day; to watch the boat-loads of hasty adventurers going off the beach...and the nearer gambols of wild little boys and girls at play on the sands; to observe the photographer...tempting every young man and woman to get their portraits taken for a shilling; and to hear the strains of banjo music performed by a dressed-up minstrel girl from Clerkenwell; these are seaside recreations which soon pall on the taste of the idlest man from town...On the whole, it is questionable whether ''the Luxury of Idleness," after the first long day of entire repose, is much to be commended at our maritime places of summer holiday resort'. From "Illustrated London News", 1883.
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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector
Notre référence
HRM25A43_230
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Droits gérés
Format disponible
45,4Mo (3,5Mo) / 31,0cm x 36,7cm / 3657 x 4336 (300dpi)