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Framed Print of Sketches in India - Slinging Letter-bags across a Nullah in the Rainy Season, 1858. Creator: Unknown
Sketches in India - Slinging Letter-bags across a Nullah in the Rainy Season, 1858....the contrivance in use...when the streams and mountain torrents are so much swollen that in many of them the fords have become impassable. The dawk-wala cares little for a drenching shower of rain. Being himself not incumbered with much to get wet in the shape of clothes, and the bags in which the letters are locked being watertight, he welcomes a smart fall of rain as a refreshing shower-bath...The violence with which a mountain torrent descends to the plains in India is inconceivable to most Europeans. Sweeping before it all movable obstacles, it... [leaves] immense gaps and ravines...forming rivers and lakes in the low ground where but a few hours only before you looked for jungle-pathways and paddy-fields...it becomes a question of considerable interest to him whether certain nullahs which he knows he will have to encounter are fordable or not...Should the next stream prove to be unfordable, his progress is stopped, but he will find that a relay is ready on the opposite shore, and a rope suspended across the water: upon this rope he strings his letter-bags, attaching a second rope, by which the burden...is drawn along its perilous way'. From Illustrated London News, 1858. Heritage Images features heritage image collections. © The Print Collector/Heritage Images
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Media ID 36352925
Communication Contraption Correspondence Delivering Delivery Ingenious Letter Letters Mail Post Postman Pulling Rainy Season Rope Ropes
Modern Frame 14"x12" (36x31cm)
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Wood effect frame, card mounted, 10x8 fade resistant photo print. Overall outside dimensions 14x12 inches (36x31cm). Environmentally and ozone friendly, 40mm wide x 15mm Polycore® moulding has the look of real wood, is durable and light and easy to hang. Biodegradable and made with non-chlorinated gases (no toxic fumes) it is efficient; producing 100 tons of polystyrene can save 300 tons of trees! Prints are glazed with lightweight, shatterproof, optical clarity acrylic (providing the same general protection from the environment as glass). The back is stapled hardboard with a sawtooth hanger attached. Note: measurements provided are estimated outer dimensions, which include both the image and the frame. While we aim to keep sizing consistent, exact dimensions may vary slightly due to differences in print size or production requirements, which may result in a variation in the overall size (up to approximately 2.5cm (1"))
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Estimated Image Size (if not cropped) is 24.4cm x 15.5cm (9.6" x 6.1")
Estimated Product Size is 36cm x 31cm (14.2" x 12.2")
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