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Stoke Pogis Churchyard

The churchyard at Stoke Pogis (today written Stoke Poges) was the setting for Thomas Grey’s famous Elegy. [more...] [$]

The Christmas Wagon

A covered wagon, drawn by four pairs of horses, crosses a snow-covered stone bridge over a river in this chromolithograph. I’m not sure whether the wagon brings gifts or relatives or is coming to take away naughty children, as the book doesn’t seem [...] [more...] [$]

Winter Games

A group of children are playing, i think on an icy pond; two of them have just fallen over. They are dressed in Victorian middle-class clothing, with caps and coats and striped trousers and boots or sturdy shooes. A girl with a bonnet and skirt looks on. In the background a woman walks a child and a black dog, and we also [...] [more...] [$]

Hymn to the Seasons

This stylized wreath of ivy includes allusions to all four seasons, as well as the words “Hymn to the Seasons”. It almost fills a page, and the following pages contain the hymn so mentioned. [more...] [$]

By the Sea

A Victorian sea-side outing, with children palying on the beach, a nanny or mother standing by them holding a boook, and, in the backgorund, a man, perhaps their father, with a top hat and cane. The children are making a sand-castle. They are all fully dressed, [...] [more...] [$]