Sujet

Hunting the Wren at Christmas - Procession of the Wren Bush and Wren Boys, 1850. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Hunting the Wren at Christmas - Procession of the Wren Bush and Wren Boys, 1850. Annual tradition during the festive season, where a wren was chased and caught. '"The recollection of the cordial welcome with which the 'Wren boys, ay, and girls too,' were greeted in the farmer's yard or at the landlord's porch, where the 'drop just to drown melancholy' was given by the landlady, or some young damsel of the house, with a kindliness of spirit that drew around them for the coming year the warm affections of their dependants, is still dear to many a heart".' From "Illustrated London News", 1850.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM22A36_205

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NA

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

54,4Mo (5,8Mo) / 42,0cm x 32,5cm / 4960 x 3837 (300dpi)

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leisure animal season female women woman people male child children event man men animals entertainment guy pig pigs British traditional tradition annual village rustic location Victorian century Britain goat goats newspapers press concept typical pastime swine hog B&W engraved engraving wintry 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century rural The Print Collector cultural event Illustrated London News rural life ILN christmas winter newspaper Unknown Regionalism 19th-century