3-071-093 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Varieties of the Tourist Species, 1883. 'Miscellaneous; from the French - the Ideal; from the English - the Real; an old tourist; young ones; busy tourists; idle ones; Americans; enchanted; bored...[Among] English folk of the middle class...the conversation runs mainly upon the topics...in our own newspapers, sustained by stiff British prejudices, defiantly ignoring the ideas of the Continental world. But the philosophical student of mankind...takes no heed of their vehement assertions of opinion, and devotes himself to the scrutiny of individual varieties of temperament, breeding, and habit, which he...perceives to be similar in some of the American, French, and German specimens...From this point of view it is that our Artist has portrayed, in his vivid sketches...persons of different nationalities, but all belonging to the great overrunning herd of Tourists, so many groups and single figures each bearing the stamp of a certain peculiarity, the enthusiastic, the indolent, the enchanted, the bored, the affected idealist, the realistic dowdy, the flirting, the prating, the exacting and quarrelsome, the courteous, gentle, and sympathetic, the shrewd and patient old stagers, and those amiable young ones, whom we heartily wish to see pleased'. From "Illustrated London News", 1883.