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| Picture No | 10222375 |
| Date | 1886 |
| Description | The Merry Month of May 1886 |
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Series of scenes, originally entitled 'The Merry Month of May'. The engravings show a number of scenes typically in Britain in May, at that time (clockwise from top left): Edwin and Angelina take a house in the country and meet a local labourer; 'The girls are very attentive to Papa and mention something about new frocks'; Jones gets out his cricket kit and finds the children have been hammering with his bat; the Penny Icecream man brings out his stall; a young courting couple sit by a pond; a vicar goes to London for the May meetings; a manager sits in his office working out the starting line up for his cricket team.
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| Source | The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, 8 May 1886, page 227 By Cyril R. Hallward. |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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