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Tag Archives: Great Britain
1783: Stones and Broccoli
Thomas Gainsborough: Pastoral Landscape (c. 1783) Gainsborough made his living painting commissioned portraits, and thus could not indulge his passion for landscapes during the day in the open air; instead, he painted them at night by candlelight, arranging stones, broccoli, … Continue reading
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1706: The Pretty Dragoon
The Story of Christiana Davis, “The British Amazon” In 1739 Christiana Davis, an outpensioner of Chelsea College, died, and was interred with military honours in the pensioners’ burying-ground. She was the daughter of a soldier in the Inniskilling Regiment, now … Continue reading
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1909: The Forest
One of Frederick Cayley Robinson’s set designs for The Blue Bird, Maurice Maeterlinck’s “Fairy Play” about Tyltyl and Mytyl, the children of a poor woodcutter, who are sent out by the Fairy Bérylune to search for the Blue Bird of … Continue reading
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1954: Khazad-dûm
Northern door of St. Edward’s Church, Stow-on-the-Wold, Tolkien’s inspiration for the West Gate of Moria.
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1942: Canal
Algernon Cecil Newton: Regent’s Canal, Maida Vale, London (1942)
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1909: Heptu Bidding Farewell to the City of Obb
John Duncan: Heptu Bidding Farewell to the City of Obb (1909)
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1909: View of York Station
Herbert William Garratt: View of York Station (c. 1909)
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1909: View through the Front Window of a Steam Locomotive
Herbert William Garratt: View through the Front Window of a Steam Locomotive (c. 1909)
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1935: No Needless Noise!
Logo of the Anti-Noise League, 1935 (source)
1874: Sleep and His Half-Brother Death
John William Waterhouse: Sleep and His Half-Brother Death (1874)
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