3-066-157 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Tourist in Normandy, 1881. 'Division of labour; a friend of Sir Wilfrid's; "Here's to the milk-maid"; a railway signal woman; The Tourists nuisance; The Centre of Attraction...Our Comic Artist has filled a page, appropriately to the season of "the Tourist Abroad," which is also notoriously "the Silly Season" both abroad and home, with his fantastic Sketches of various native and foreign human oddities, supposed to be met with on the opposite shore of the Channel. The costumes of the Norman country folk...are certainly picturesque; and there is a pretty gracefulness in the figure of the girl on her laden donkey, whom two members of the Silly Tourist Club, alighting from their preposterous bicycles, have unwarrantly begun to tease with the awkward gallantry of their kind. Milk from her barrel, or some innocent liquid from the store that "a friend of Sir Wilfrid" carries at his back, may be safely recommended in preference to the cider of Normandy...[There is also] the wonderful house architecture of mixed masonry and timber framework, with its high gabled roofs and overhanging top floors...Ladies and gentlemen of our nation...should beware of presenting a singular appearance...The Comic Artist has hit eye upon them'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.