Sujet

Sketches in Annam: a riverside dwelling, 1883. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Sketches in Annam: a riverside dwelling, 1883. 'The Annam country, including Tonquin, the dominion of which is now disputed between France and China, situated to the north, and Cambodia to the south, has been popularly styled "Cochin China."...The native Annamite population, inhabiting a long and narrow strip of land between the Me-Kong and the China Sea, are feeble and unwarlike, small in stature, and of very indolent habits. It is asserted that many of them have been converted by the Roman Catholic missions...The view presented in our Engraving now published is that of one of the poorer dwellings on the bank of a large river, partly erected on a platform over the water, inhabited by fishermen or boatmen; there is usually a garden on shore, attached to such a family residence, for the cultivation of fruit and vegetables to eat'. From "Illustrated London News", 1883.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM25A50_246

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Droits gérés

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26,8Mo (2,9Mo) / 30,9cm x 21,7cm / 3650 x 2563 (300dpi)

Mots clés

river wood people male child children man men timber family home arts washing art guy basket baskets laundry British geography roof wooden poor poverty lumber bamboo location century SHACK Britain newspapers press Vietnam print shacks mekong stilts concept Vietnamese thatched washing line thatch Southeast Asia B&W clothes line clothesline thatched roof engraved engraving family life 19th century black & white black and white B W Indochina nineteenth century The Print Collector geographical feature Illustrated London News TGN wood engraving Annam French Indochina ILN Cochinchina newspaper Unknown Annamite 19th-century The Illustrated London News Cochin-China