Sujet

On the canal, Abbeville, 1871. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

On the canal, Abbeville, 1871. Engraving showing '...several old and characteristic houses which span various parts of the canal or river...Dark and weirdlike are they, and one cannot help speculating as to what their original inhabitants were, and whether this amphibious predilection encourages the "evolution'' theory, that man has been derived from a fish, or whether this choice of a superaqueous habitation is a cropping out of the instinct that animated the lake-dwellers of a long-forgotten past'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM24A61_199

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

11,2Mo (1005,4Ko) / 16,3cm x 17,2cm / 1922 x 2035 (300dpi)

Mots clés

travel transport transportation exterior outdoors building buildings architecture arts country French France art bridge bridges British structure canal location century Britain newspapers press print picardy B&W tourist attraction engraved engraving 19th century water transport black & white black and white B W nineteenth century tourism The Print Collector Illustrated London News TGN wood engraving ILN outside newspaper Unknown Abbeville 19th-century Samuel Read Read Samuel The Illustrated London News