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The Forest of Arden With Some of its Legends (page 1/2)

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Images from The Forest of Arden With Some of its Legends by George Wharton Edwards (New York, 1914). I bought this book in a small shop in Peterborough, Ontario.

The Forest of Arden is a travelogue, an early form of blog.

Title: The Forest of Arden With Some of its Legends

Author: Edwards, George Wharton

Published by: Frederick A. Stokes Company

City: New York

Date: 1914

Total items: 8

Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.

Some sample images

[picture: Frontispiece: Dinant, Showing Old Castle and Cathedral]

Frontispiece: Dinant, Showing Old Castle and Cathedral

The building with the elongated dome structure is the main church, the thirteenth century Notre Dame de Dinant. [more...] [$]

[picture: A Rainy Sunday]

A Rainy Sunday

A boy and a girl walk happily arm in arm under the shelter of an umbrella; the boy carries small bag and wears a cap; the giel wears dress and bonnet; both children wear clocgs and dark socks on their feet. [...] [more...] [$]

[picture: Château Montjardin. Remouchamps.]

Château Montjardin. Remouchamps.

This black and white drawing and ink wash of the castle shows it from below, and makes it appear very imposing as it towers above the trees at the top of the hill. It still looks like this today. [more...] [$]

[picture: Rosalind. In an Old Monastery Garden.]

Rosalind. In an Old Monastery Garden.

This painting of a young lady, Rosalind, in a (sketched) garden shows the young woman wearing brown dress, cloak and boots, and looking very much a product of 1914. She has red lips. [more...] [$]

[picture: The Castle. Vève-Celles.]

The Castle. Vève-Celles.

“And there before you on the hill stands Vève-Celles, the castle, wth the curse upon it, the blasting curse of the Hunchback.” [more...] [$]


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Aywaille ·Celles-Houyet ·Château Montjardin ·Dinant ·Falaën ·Henumont ·Namur ·Onhaye ·Province de Liège ·Remouchamps ·Vève ·Wallonia ·none

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