Sujet
A Day's Fishing on the Teign, 1883. Creator: Unknown.
Légende
A Day's Fishing on the Teign, 1883. 'The only one who started early; his first fish; the way one filled his basket (a silver hook); [woman sketching]; on the fishermen's path; [cattle watching; fireside chat]; his last fly...The pools where trout delight to lie can often only be got at by casting beneath a tangled net-work of oak branches. Sometimes one has to take post on a slippery boulder round which the torrent rushes...The kind of mishap that may occur to a novice thus placed in the excitement of striking "his first fish" our artist has more than suggested...For fishing the narrow moorland streams, full of small but exquisitely flavoured trout, there is nothing like "an early start.'' It may not be the perfection of pleasure to take your way at daybreak alone over a pathless waste shrouded in a cold drizzling mist...but when trout begin to rise freely,...all your previous discomforts will be speedily forgotten, and you will be in a frame of mind to enjoy the sublimity of a solitude disturbed only by...shaggy moorland cattle, curious to know what such an intrusion may mean...One golden rule for a stranger is never to try short cuts...he will be sure, at least, of getting home in time for dinner and the pleasant fireside chat afterwards'. From "Illustrated London News", 1883.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector
Notre référence
HRM25A50_110
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
48,8Mo (6,4Mo) / 30,1cm x 40,7cm / 3553 x 4805 (300dpi)