3-066-048 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Sketches of the Wimbledon Rifle Meeting, 1881. Annual shooting event on Wimbledon Common in south-west London. 'We present a page of humorous sketches of the by-play and casual adventures to be witnessed at the Wimbledon Rifle Meeting, which has this year been favoured with splendid summer weather, and has attracted an immense number of visitors...1. The Band in the Great Tent; 2. "He saw not the Danger"; 3. Firing Positions - Thick and Thin; 4. The Silver Key; 5. Hot Work up Hill; 6. Views Near and Remote'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.