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Holiday Haunts and Jolly Day Jaunts



Date:
1905
Object Number:
M.1986.TN.91
Creator
William Fletcher Thomas (artist)
Material
pen & ink, paper
Size
Ht x W: 23.6 x 35.5 cm
Object name
drawing
Object category
pictures

Description

Multiple vignettes of leisure activities: Centre image ‘The Husbands Boat’, group of women in contemporary dress (Edwardian) standing on the deck of a boat looking across at a paddle steamer (named Rox I Noor) with a deck full of people. Anti-clockwise from top left: ‘Arry at ‘Ampstead’, man and woman riding donkeys; ‘Cricket at the Crystal Palace’, batsman with WG Grace in the background; ‘Sixty and hour!’, motor biker wearing goggles with a chicken on the road; ‘One a month’, man in a deerstalker fishing; ‘Something out of the City’, man in a hammock with child and woman in a Llyod loom chair; ‘Blackpool Ball Rooms’, couples dancing with a waiter standing to one side; ‘Up the River’ man and woman in a punt/rowing boat beneath a willow; ‘Cycling thro Chingford’, long line of cyclists; ‘To Brighton and back in ten minutes’ man speeding past a policeman standing behind a bush. Notes on artist on reverse in pencil.