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Description: | “A Fenman’s Cottage. – Here we have a harmony of reeds and weeds forming a very rustic picture, a true Norfolk cottage, rugged and weather-beaten. Could we see the fenman who in habits this inflammable looking cot, we should find him equally rugged and weather-beaten. He would probably be a bronzed, wrinkled man, grey-eyed and tangle-bearded, the latter varying in colour from a brown to a tawny-tow tinted shade. A straight nose, shaggy eyebrows, and wide mouth would complete this honest fenman’s face. I know them and their simple ways, and hope their contact with town-folk will not spoil them and teach them too much.”
Letterpress description by Ernest R. Suffling accompanying Plate LIX from ‘Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads’. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Publisher: | Payne Jennings | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Payne Jennings, John (1843-1926) | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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