Sujet

Breton Women at a Pardon, by F. J. Skill, 1871. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Breton Women at a Pardon, by F. J. Skill, 1871. Engraving of a painting. '...the Celtic population of Brittany celebrate their yearly religious festivals...The Pardon of Guingamp takes place on the Saturday before the first Sunday in July. It is attended by so many as 10,000 people of all classes, whole families coming together, men, women, and children, whole villages sending up the congregation of the parish church, with the clergy at their head, bearing crucifixes, caskets of relics, banners, garlands, and wax-candles, the last-mentioned for votive offerings given by the faithful. The picturesque dress both of the men and women has often been remarked by strangers visiting Brittany...The women and girls, in their singularly-shaped white caps, bright-coloured bodices, shawl handkerchiefs, and brocaded silk aprons, look...quaint and old-fashioned, as they stand with their huge candles, or their chaplets of flowers, by the wayside, around the consecrated fountain, or at the doors of the church'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM24A61_240

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NA

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

43,6Mo (5,5Mo) / 28,0cm x 39,0cm / 3306 x 4608 (300dpi)

Mots clés

agriculture female women woman people child children girl girls job hat farming religious arts painting country French France religion candle candles art costume occupation belief faith clothes British headdress annual bonnet Christianity dress dresses traditional costume headdresses location Catholic Catholicism century Roman Catholic Brittany Britain profession newspapers press picture clothing print labourer labourers concept bonnets pictures peasant peasants APPAREL B&W headgear engraved engraving head-dress 19th century black & white black and white religious festival B W farm hand farmhand farm hands farmhands farm worker farm workers Roman Catholicism farmworker farmworkers nineteenth century The Print Collector agricultural worker farm labourer Illustrated London News navvy traditional dress wood engraving ILN newspaper Unknown Bretonne agricultural workers farm labourers 19th-century head-dresses Roman Catholics clothing & dress fashion & clothing agricultural labourer Frederick John Skill Skill Frederick John The Illustrated London News