3-086-495 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

A Kite-Flying "At Home" at Malta, 1898. '1. The Guests Arrive; 2, "Are you ready?"; 3. "Then - go!"; 4. The Artist's Work for the First, and probably the Last, Time on the Line; 5. She: "Poor thing! Whatever makes it look so sad!" He: "They've told me off to judge the highest kite, though I've got such a stiff neck I can't see higher than my hat"; 6. At Home on the Roof. Drawn by Staff-Surgeon A. G. Wildey, H.M.S. "Cruiser" [Royal Navy ship]'. From "Illustrated London News", 1898.