Items matching sketches

Detail from title page

A line drawing of a castle tower with leaves in the foreground.

Keywords: sketches, castles, towers

Places shown: England

Added: 2006-06-21

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Biddenden, Kent

Signed Sydney R Jones 1906.

Biddenden village Web site

Keywords: cottages, houses, windows, sketches, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Biddenden; Kent; England

Added: 2006-01-20

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Cranbrook, Kent

Signed SRJ (Sydney R Jones) 1906. George and Frederick Hardy, George O’Neil and Thomas Webster formed the Cranbrook Art Colony here in the 1900s. Historic Kent notes about the village of Cranbrook “Ke [...]

Keywords: streets, cottages, sketches

Places shown: Cranbrook; Kent; England

Added: 2006-01-20

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Tonbridge, Kent

Sketch of an Elizabethan cottage in Kent.

“Kent, Sussex and Surrey are three of the most delightful counties in England”

Keywords: houses, cottages, windows, sketches

Places shown: Tonbridge; Kent; England

Added: 2006-01-20

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Awaiting the postman on Saint Valentine’s Day

St. Valentine’s day, the 14th of February (US: February 14) “Where can the postman be, I say? He ought to fly—on such a day!Of all days in the year, you know, It’s monstrous rude to be so slow: The fe [...]

Keywords: people, romance, sketches, humour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-01-05

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Isis and Oxford Canal

In the foreground a man wearing a hat and carrying a bag or box stands at a canal lock; another walks along the towpath. On the river we see someone punting a bot, and a couple of people fishing from [...]

Keywords: canals, sketches, views, people, boats

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2006-02-09

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Folly Bridge

“Any places of strength in Oxford would command the roads leading to the north and west, and the secure, raised paths that ran through the flooded fens to the ford or bridge, if bridge there then was, [...]

Keywords: water, bridges, people, sketches

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2006-01-04

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Frontispiece: Jester and Monk

A woman in a red jester’s outfit, including a jester’s hat with bells, and a black-robed monk wearing sandals, and with a black hood, hold hands as if preparing to dance.

Keywords: people, jesters, monks, sketches, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-05-25

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Page detail: Art Neuveau border

A detail from the January Week 1 page showing the decorative border, which repeats on every fourth page throughout most of the book. A cat stands on a skull.

Keywords: borders, cats, skulls, sketches, spooky, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-05-25

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III. The Temple Over the Canyon, Segesta

“Everyone advised me to go to Segesta, and I am glad I wemt, but I should never have known how wonderfully the Greeks made architectural compositions if I had not seen the Grand Canyon. There I saw N [...]

Keywords: temples, ruins, hills, mountains, sketches, ancient greek remains

Places shown: Segesta; Trapani; Sicily; Italy

Added: 2004-01-05

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XXXII The Temple of Nike From Mars Hill, Athens

“This is the grandest grouping of the Acropolis. The way in which the whole, in solemn square masses, piles up—the temple dominating all—is marvellous. It is finer, I am sure, in ruin, than ever it [...]

Keywords: ruins, temples, hills, views, sketches, ancient greece, ancient greek remains

Places shown: Athens; Greece

Added: 2006-03-16

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II. The Theatre, Segesta

“Nothing, not even Taormina, is more magnificent than the set scene of the Theatre; how poor and mean must have been the forgotten mummers! The scene will exist till the end of time—even though scarc [...]

Keywords: temples, mountains, amphitheatres, sketches, ruins, ancient greek remains, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Segesta; Trapani; Sicily; Italy

Added: 2003-12-14

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