3-074-704 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Sketches at the closing of the Fisheries Exhibition, 1883. '1. The Last Fish Dinner. 2. An Old Salt. 3. Belgian Fishwoman. 4. Interested. 5. The Last of the Evening Fêtes. 6. Cheering the Prince of Wales. 7. Boys of H.M.S. Arethusa falling in...The ceremony of closing this Exhibition, as performed by the Prince of Wales...took place in the Central Gallery, the Inland Fisheries Department...Our Sketches, besides representing some features of this scene, not omitting the boys of H.M.S. Arethusa, the training- ship, who have become favourite public characters, include a pretty view of the evening illumination of the pleasant Horticultural Gardens, and one of the Last of the Sixpenny Fish Dinners. These modest, wholesome, and agreeable repasts, which were so light as to be taken rather for luncheons, were partaken, during the whole time of the Exhibition, by 208,500 guests, and the National School of Cookery, by assisting in their preparation, has rendered valuable service to the science of feeding, which is no small part of the Science of Health...The remaining Sketches [show] two or three figures typical of different classes of visitors...and one of the interesting foreign fishwomen who have lingered in London after most of the others had left'. From "Illustrated London News", 1883.