Sujet
On board the Dundee steamer, 1873. Creator: William Biscombe Gardner.
Légende
On board the Dundee steamer, 1873. 'There are many different ways of taking the August holiday...one way is that of a sea-passage to Scotland by the steamers departing...from their appointed stations off Wapping [on the Thames in London]. There are, of course, those which make the trip to Leith or Granton Pier for Edinburgh, and which may afford, to passengers who are proof against sea-sickness, an agreeable change from the twelve-hour railway journey...But there is, furthermore, presented to the amateurs of a coasting navigation in pleasant summer weather the somewhat longer voyage from London to Dundee, which should be accomplished in thirty-six hours. This is not too long a time to be at sea if one has the comfort of a quiet stomach, and if the wind be not too cold and the deck be nicely dry. With such agreeable company as some of those who figure in our Artist's sketch the passage to Dundee might be found so delightful that a man would be content to go on to Aberdeen...That is what a young gentleman might be tempted at least to fancy he would like to do in the society of one of these young ladies sitting on the deck of the steamer'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.
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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector
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HRM25A13_169
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56,0Mo (6,8Mo) / 44,7cm x 31,4cm / 5284 x 3705 (300dpi)