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View of the beach of Saint-Malo crowded with bathers, children, and idle vacationers of all sorts — Sea-bathing in France.

Artist

Name:: Du Maurier, George
Dates:: 1834-1896
Country:: UK

Illustration

Subject:: Humor
Technique:: Wood engraving
Engraver:: Swain, Joseph
Format:: Landscape (wider)
Source:: Robarts Library, Internet Archive

Periodical

Title:: Once a week, vol. 5 (June-December 1861)
Author(s):: Collective work
Publisher:: London: Bradbury & Evans, 1861

Description

View of the beach of Saint-Malo (as the story has it) crowded with bathers, children, idle vacationers of all sorts, and people sitting on chairs in the foreground.
This illustration was created for Sea-Bathing in France by Harry Jones.

Keywords: 1860s, 19th century, black & white, crowd, Europe, France, leisure, Once a week, periodical, seafront, Victorian