A substitute for the Sea Side, or the Serpentine as it might be, 1858. Children swimming and building sandcastles, women feeding swans, changing into costumes near the lake in Hyde Park. Handcoloured etching by John Leech from Follies of the Year, from Punch’s Pocket Books, Bradbury, London, 1864.

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