Women drawing water from a village fountain. Halftone after Ewing.

1 print : process print ; image 14 x 20.5 cm

Women drawing water and watering sheep at a beautiful old village fountain ; water is not laid on to the houses of Lebanon, and we can understand why when we look at the photograph of one of them on page 348. ; every village, however, has its fountain, and there the women meet to fill their pitchers and talk over the gossip of the day. one woman ; has brought her sheep to the fountain this hot sunny day that she ; may cool him and clean him with a shower-bath of cold water. the ; animal seems rather to like it, and indeed in hot weather his thick coat, which is used to make the native cloth, must be very heavy. ; Ewing

Wellcome Collection 36120i