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Rosalind. In an Old Monastery Garden.The Forest of Arden With Some of its Legends (1914)

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.

Keywords: people, women, gardens, art, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-08-17

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Frontispiece: Cranbrook, KentOld 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: 2004-07-29

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Frontispiece: Cranbrook, KentOld 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: 2004-07-31

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Frontispiece: Watering My FlowersOur 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, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-10-05

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Frontispiece: Cranbrook, KentOld 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: 2004-07-29

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Hollingbourne, KentOld 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: 2004-07-31

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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; England

Added: 2005-02-07

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Rumwood CourtArt 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; England

Added: 2005-02-07

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Full-page border with bird, flowers, ivyIm Wechsel Der Tage (1885)

This engraved border surrounded the table of contents in the original book. The text ended one blank line above the ornament at lower middle, although if you needed a little extra space you could dele [...]

Keywords: borders, gardens, flowers, birds, plants, ivy, creepers, spring, romance, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2023-01-12

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Miniature: Garden of GethsemanuBook of Hours, 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: 2006-09-29

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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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Steep, HampshireOld English Country Cottages (1906)

From a water-colour drawing by Walter Tyndale. An English house wth a steep tiled roof, probably originally thatched, and with stone mullioned windows. Topiary and careful landscaping give a well-kept [...]

Keywords: houses, cottages, roofs, gardens, chimneys, dormer windows, windows, topiary, colour

Places shown: Steep; Hampshire; England

Added: 2012-10-22

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Priot Bolton’s Garden-house at CanonburyLondon (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, greyscale

Places shown: Islington; London; England

Added: 2009-04-27

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Decorative Initial letter “I” With sunbathing lady and birdsFabiola, or, the Church of the Catacombs (1887)

This “vignetted” initial capital letter I was used as a drop cap at the start of a chapter. It includes two birds (songbirds I think, by their shapes) siting on swirly vines; two urns sprouting out o [...]

Keywords: letteri, initials, people, women, birds, ornate, vignetted initials, foliated initials, urns, gardens, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2015-10-03

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1801.—A Knotted Garden.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Let us now follow [William Shakespeare] into his retirement (about 1604) at the place so associated with all his early hopes and struggles, and joys and sorrows—Stratford—the place that was evidently, [...]

Keywords: shakespeare, gardens, houses, backgrounds, wallpaper, houses, greyscale

Places shown: Stratford; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2011-05-27

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Passages From The Poets – A Garden.Art-Journal (1850)

The picture shows a gentleman and two ladies in probably eighteenth century dress, in the grounds of some large house or castle; they have met along a broad path leading to stone steps, and in the bac [...]

Keywords: trees, gardens, people, romance, paths, forests, stately homes, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2017-02-01

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Bemersyde HouseThe Scott Country (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: 2005-09-19

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Nathaniel Hawthorne’s HouseWarwick and Leamington (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, dickens

Places shown: Leamington; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2005-05-01

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