3-052-467 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Fishing on the Ristigouche, in Canada - drawing by Princess Louise in the exhibition of the Society of Painters in Water Colours, 1880. 'In our notice of the Winter Exhibition of the Old Water Colour Society we described the pleasant and clever sketches in which Princess Louise, holding her own even relatively to the high professional standard of Pall Mall East, records some of the scenes viewed during her sojourn in Canada...[Our illustration shows] fishing on the Ristigouche; the piscatorial pleasure attended by one serious drawback - mosquitoes - which her Royal Highness has had, by pictorial license, to make visible. To another sense they are only too palpable, and to those who have made acquaintance with the venomous little vampires in some quarters they must assume a monstrous shape in the memory and imagination. The lady, we see, has protected herself by a veil; and the gentleman smoking needs, it appears, no other defence, but the poor fellow with the paddle is entirely at. their mercy. Probably, however, he has been already inoculated, and has therefore nothing to fear'. From "Illustrated London News", 1880.