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Title:
In praise of the courageous rowers from Donostia for the race in which they beat the team from Ondarroa on the 2nd of December 1890 by one minute and twenty-eight seconds over 10 miles
Document number:
3786
Format date:
1890
Topic date:
1890
Physical description:
1 37 x 54 cm engraving on a 44 x 62 cm page; colour.
Notes:
The picture of the trainera (fishing boat with oars) is from a photograph by L. Duchoux. On the bottom left-hand edge is the name of the cox and the crew of the winning trainera. The measurements correspond to the passe-partout that frames it. These regattas began to form part of the summer festival programmes in the late XIX century.
Subjects:
Art and Architecture-Civil buildings-Casinos
Communications-Means of transport-Vessels-Fishing boats with oars
Communications-Routes-Bridges
Coats of arms
Leisure-Festivals
Natural landscape-Coasts
Place names:
Donostia-S.Sebastian - Gipuzkoa
Location:
Untzi Museoa = Museo Naval
2013 Department of Culture, Youth and Sport - Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa