Post Date:
Dec 20, 2018 9:21 PM
TAG ID:
hiphotos200511
(RM)
Credit:
AiWire/Newscom
Format:
5060 x 3269 Color JPEG
Keywords:
19th century, 20th century, 1900s, animal, bird, birds, bonxie, Britain, British, century, child, children, cliff, cliffs, color, colour, concept, country, danger, dangerous, dramatic, egg, eggs, geographical feature, geography, great skua, gull, Hook, James Clarke, hunting, James Clarke Hook, landscape, Laridae, location, nineteenth century, people, Scotland, Scots, SCOTTISH, seabird, seabirds, seagull, shetland islands, skua, skuas, stealing, The Print Collector, Unknown, Victorian
Release Status:
No Model Release, No Property Release
Caption:
'The Bonxie, Shetland', 1873, (c1902). After a painting in the Guildhall Art Gallery, London. Children hunting birds' eggs on the cliffs in northern Scotland: a boy uses a knife tied to a stick to fend off a parent bird whose nest is being looted by his companions. From The Nation's Pictures. A selection from the finest modern paintings in the public picture galleries of Great Britain, reproduced in colour. [Cassell and Company Ltd, London, c1902] AiWire