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gardens: Land used for growing flowers, vegetables, herbs, or fruit; also grounds laid out with flowers, trees, and ornamental shrubs and used for recreation or display.

Synonyms: yard, vegetable patch, public garden, park, botanical garden

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Bemersyde House

Bemersyde House

The Scott Country (Geddie and Haslehust) (1920)

“This Bemerside Hill is a ‘Mount of vision’ from which all the chief shrines and high places of the Scott Country can be surveyed, at least with the mind’s eye. Abbortsford itself, if not in actual vi [...]

Keywords: houses, buildings, flowers, gardens, trees, colour

Places shown: St Boswells; Berwickshire; Scotland

Added: 2006-01-20

Image status: stock image royalty-free for non-commercial uses only, usage credit required

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s House

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s House

Warwick and Leamington (Haslehust and Morley) (1920)

“The way to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ‘nest of a place’ is up the shady Holly Walk, which leads immediately out of the Royal Parade, [...] by the imposing Renaissance Town Hall and the attractive life-siz [...]

Keywords: colour, houses, trees, gardens

Places shown: Leamington; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2006-01-20

Image status: stock image royalty-free for non-commercial uses only, usage credit required

Great Tangley Manor, Surrey.

Great Tangley Manor, Surrey.

Art in England During the Elizabethan and Stuart Periods (1908)

A half-timbered Elizabethan manor-house with tiled roof is here seen from the garden. Notice the cat sitting in the porch! The moated Manor House of Great Tangley, in West Surrey (facing page 24), tho [...]

Keywords: manors, colour, gardens, trees, buildings, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Wonersh; Surrey; England

Added: 2007-10-30

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Rumwood Court

Rumwood Court

Art in England During the Elizabethan and Stuart Periods (1908)

Rumwood Court, Langley, Kent, from a water-colour drawing by E. Arthur Rowe [1863-1922]. Today, Rumwood Court is a Grade II listed building; this Elizabethan manor could be yours, since it’s for sale. [...]

Keywords: colour, houses, flowers, gardens, manors

Places shown: Rumwood Court; Langley; Kent

Added: 2006-01-20

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Rumwood Court [screen background version]

Rumwood Court [screen background version]

Art in England During the Elizabethan and Stuart Periods (1908)

A version of Rumwood Court scaled and cropped to make it suitable for use as a screen background or ‘desktop wallpaper’.

Keywords: colour, backgrounds, houses, flowers, gardens, manors, wallpaper

Places shown: Rumwood Court; Langley; Kent

Added: 2006-01-20

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Frontispiece: Cranbrook, Kent

Frontispiece: Cranbrook, Kent

Old English Country Cottages (1906)

From a water-colour drawing by Herbert Alexander, A.R.W.S.

Cropped version suitable for screen background, lightened

Keywords: cottages, flowers, gardens, houses, colour, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Cranbrook; Kent; England

Added: 2006-01-20

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Frontispiece: Cranbrook, Kent

Frontispiece: Cranbrook, Kent

Old English Country Cottages (1906)

From a water-colour drawing by Herbert Alexander, A.R.W.S.

Keywords: cottages, flowers, gardens, houses, colour

Places shown: Cranbrook; Kent; England

Added: 2006-01-20

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Frontispiece: Cranbrook, Kent

Frontispiece: Cranbrook, Kent

Old English Country Cottages (1906)

From a water-colour drawing by Herbert Alexander, A.R.W.S.

Cropped version suitable for screen background

Keywords: cottages, flowers, gardens, houses, colour, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Cranbrook; Kent; England

Added: 2006-01-20

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Hollingbourne, Kent

Hollingbourne, Kent

Old English Country Cottages (1906)

A half-timbered cottage in Kent. The steep tiled roof was probably once thatched. From a water-colour drawing by Mrs. Allingham, R.W.S. The image is also marked “by permission of Mrs. Lionel Beddingt [...]

Keywords: cottages, flowers, moss, rooves, gardens, houses, colour, people, birds, colour, christmas

Places shown: Hollingbourne; Kent; England

Added: 2006-01-20

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Priot Bolton’s Garden-house at Canonbury

Priot Bolton’s Garden-house at Canonbury

London (Volume II) (1841)

From the house we pass to the lawn, which is terminated by a wall with a raised and embowered terrace, from which we look over on the other side to the kitchen-garden, the New River, and thence onward [...]

Keywords: gardens

Places shown: Islington; London; England

Added: 2009-04-27

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Frontispiece: Watering My Flowers

Frontispiece: Watering My Flowers

Our Village (1893)

A lady stands in the path of an English thatched country cottage garden; she wears a dress, a bonnet and dainty shoes, and holds in one hand a watering can, with which she is watering the garden.

Keywords: people, gardens, rural elegance

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-10-05

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Miniature: Garden of Gethsemanu

Miniature: Garden of Gethsemanu

Book of Hours, Ms. Library of Congress. Rosenwald ms. 10 (1533)

The disciples of Jesus sleep while Jesus prays, “let this cup be taken from me,” although since they were asleep no-one actually heard his prayer. The disciples are depicted as caucasian men with bar [...]

Keywords: colour, people, art, religion, gardens, bare feet, beards, prayer, christmas

Places shown: Jerusalem; Israel

Added: 2006-09-30

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

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