Sujet
The Morning Post: News From Town, 1883. Creator: Unknown.
Légende
The Morning Post: News From Town, 1883. 'It is...the daily delivery of private letters, by an agent of her Majesty's Government, to their proper recipients at a seaside village, that our Artist has chosen to commemorate in this pleasant drawing, which represents a young lady seated on the top of a flight of steps, perusing her own particular "News from Town." The postman is seen walking off in the field behind, and we suspect that...he was intercepted by this young lady, who rises earlier than the rest of her family, and professes to like a walk before breakfast, having also taken a light basket with her...She was desirous, for reasons best known to herself, of securing an expected letter which she did not wish to discuss with her parents or her brothers and sisters; and this is why she has contrived to be the first person stirring in the household, and to slip out at half-past seven...We wonder how many letters from the same correspondent she gets in a week, or in a month, and where she betakes herself to write her own letters in reply, and how she manages to run off and put them into the village post-office. As to the contents of such letters, on both sales, every one of our female readers will be sure that she knows them all by heart'. From "Illustrated London News", 1883.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector
Notre référence
HRM25A50_155
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
44,2Mo (6,3Mo) / 27,3cm x 40,6cm / 3220 x 4797 (300dpi)