Welsh Costume: ILN, Swansea Milk-Seller, 1881
Description
Title: A SWANSEA MILK-SELLER
Description: Woman with milk cans, wearing a low crowned ?straw hat (a little like the Swansea Cockle hat) with kerchief under it; fringed shawl, apron, relatively short skirt, stockings, boots.
Note: Published with similar images of ‘Swansea Cockle Seller’ and ‘Swansea Market Woman’ in the Illustrated London News, 22nd October 1881, following the visit of the Prince of Wales to Swansea on the 17th October 1881.
Medium: steel engraving (from magazine)
Size: paper: 11.8 x 6.7 cms
Artist: W.P.
Engraver: Anon
Printer: Anon
Publisher: Anon
Date: 1881
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