Items by Rackham,Arthur

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Get Up and Bar the Door

Some British Ballads (1919)

The house-wife carries a hot pan of stew by the handle, a cat sits on the hearth by, one assumes, the fire, and the husband looks to his wife even as she in turn looks to the door. It fell about the [...]

Keywords: people, interiors, cottages

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-09-22

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Young Bekie

Some British Ballads (1919)

The picture shows a young man lying on the floor of a prison cell or castle dungeon [donjon], his hands on his head, and with one ankle chained to the wall. There are a great number of rats or mice i [...]

Keywords: interiors, prisons, animals, people, chains, colour, spooky

Places shown: Paris; France

Added: 2006-05-13

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The Twa Corbies

Some British Ballads (1919)

Or, The Two Ravens. Two carrion birds sit discussing what they are going to eat for supper, and one mentions a young man, a knight, lying dead nearby, presumably killed by his lover’s new boyfriend. [...]

Keywords: people, knights, trees, birds, death, spooky

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-06-13

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The Gardener

Some British Ballads (1919)

A smiling young man with hauntingly blue eyes stands smiling at the gate to his thatched country cottage. A lady with a country-style scarf and dress addresses him. “ The gardener stands in his bower [...]

Keywords: cottages, colour, people, thatched cottages

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-05-29

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Frontispiece: Clerk Colvill

Some British Ballads (1919)

The young man clutches his hat with one hand and with the other holds aloft a sword as he kneels at the edge of a pond. From that same pond a mermaid rises up, arms raised, breasts bare. This beautifu [...]

Keywords: people, trees, water, swords, mermaids, colour

Places shown: Slane; County Meath; Ireland

Added: 2006-05-13

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O Waken, Waken, Burd Isbel

Some British Ballads (1919)

“O it fell once upon a day Burd Isbel fell asleep, An’ up it starts the Billy Blind, An’ stood at her bed-feet. ‘O waken, waken, Burd Isbel, How can you sleep so soun’, Whan this is Bekie’ [...]

Keywords: interiors, beds, people, furniture

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-05-15

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