Children wade in the shallow tidal pool at the entrance to Shanklin Chine on the Isle of Wight, one small boy steadying a toy sailboat in the water while Edwardian holiday-makers in wide-brimmed hats rest on a bench before a quintessential thatched stone cottage, life-ring mounted on the boathouse wall behind them — a perfectly preserved snapshot of English seaside leisure in the golden afternoon of the Edwardian age, circa 1905. Published by the celebrated Francis Frith & Co. of Reigate as card no. 66205 in their renowned topographic series, printed in Saxony to the exacting chromolithographic standard that made Frith cards the benchmark of British view-card publishing, this example remains unposted and uncirculated with a fresh, bright image. Shanklin Chine — a dramatic wooded ravine cutting to the sea — was one of the Isle of Wight's most visited Victorian and Edwardian attractions, and Frith documented it exhaustively; this composition, with its thatched cottage and paddling children, is among the most appealing in the series.