Items matching villages (results page 1)

Frontispiece: DenchworthQuiet Roads and Sleepy Villages (1914)

“Denchworth [...] is one of the prettiest villages hereabouts. What little there is of it consists of one short street lined mostly with timber framed and straw-thatched cottages. As one advances from [...]

Keywords: streets, villages, houses, thatched cottagesstreets, colour, christmas

Places shown: Denchworth; Berkshire; England

Added: 2006-01-27

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Frontispiece, Denchworth, hand colouredQuiet Roads and Sleepy Villages (1914)

This is a version of the Frontispiece sepia-tinted photograph of Denchworth that I coloured using The Gimp.

Keywords: streets, villages, houses, thatched cottagesstreets, colour

Places shown: Denchworth; Berkshire; England

Added: 2006-01-27

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Plate 3. Chipping Campden Church and AlmshousesCotswold Country (1939)

Chipping Campden, Church and Almshouses

Chipping Campden was the home of William Morris, the founder of the Arts and craft movement in 19th century England.

Keywords: old photographs, villages, churches, buildings, streets, colour

Places shown: Chipping Campden; Gloucestershire; England

Added: 2008-08-28

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Chipping Campden, The High StreetCotswold Country (1939)

Chipping Campden, The High Street

The house in the centre at the back is I think the Market Hall.

Keywords: old photographs, villages, colour

Places shown: Chipping Campden; Gloucestershire; England

Added: 2008-08-30

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The Maid of the MillWorld’s Best Music (1900)

An idyllic village scene with a church tower (complete with church clock) in the background and a water-mill with its water-wheel in the foregroud. In the centre is what looks like a canal lock, but [...]

Keywords: villages, water, mills, churches, towers, creeper, christmas, colour

Places shown: unspecified

Added: 2004-03-04

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Angel of the New yearModerne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band XV (1901)

A winged angel, a woman, floats over a snow-covered village, a church and houses and farms visible in the background. She carries a severed evergreen tree over one shoulder and a shining lantern in he [...]

Keywords: christmas, new year, angels, women, people, dresses, bare feet, trees, winter, snow, villages, religion, christianity, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2023-01-26

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Clovelly, From the Hobby WalkMagazine of Art Illustrated (1878)

The viewer is looking down a steeply-descending path through a seaside village towards the sea. There are slate rooves and some laundry over a fence. I tried to follow Hobby Drive down the hill using [...]

Keywords: views, villages, water, hills, water, roofs, rooftops, boats, chimneys, roads, greyscale

Places shown: Clovelly; Devon; England

Added: 2021-07-09

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Adrift from The Snow QueenArthur Rackham, His Life and Work (1960)

A watercolour painting of a helpless little girl adrift in a rowing boat without oars, on the wrong side of the river from a distant village with a castle. Arthur Rackham made the picture to illustrat [...]

Keywords: people, children, girls, boats, water, despair, fear, villages, castles, paintings, winter, colour, illustrations for children

Places shown: none

Added: 2024-09-23

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Singleton.Sussex Painted (1906)

The village of Singleton in Sussex was mentioned (according to this book) in the Domesday Book, and has (or had) a manor associated with it. In this bucolic painting we see ducks heading toward a pond [...]

Keywords: villages, buildings, churches, colour

Places shown: Singleton; Sussex; England

Added: 2011-02-24

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GlyndeSussex Painted (1906)

An English village near Lewes; the painting shows a half-timbered house with a red tile roof.

Keywords: buildings, houses, villages, roofs, colour, backgrounds, wallpaper

Places shown: Glynde; Sussex; England

Added: 2011-02-24

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Winter GamesThe Circling Year (1870)

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 s [...]

Keywords: winter, children, playing, games, xmas, villages, rural scenes, genre painting, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2020-04-17

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BethlehemThe Land and the Book (1894)

In the foregrouns are two men, ora man and a boy herding goats. But behind them rise hills and the small ancient town of Bethlehem , with its square buildings and its temple. The houes in ancient Pale [...]

Keywords: villages, views, cityscapes, people, shepherds, animals, goats, spirit, stone houses, hills, colour

Places shown: Bethlehem; Palestine

Added: 2021-01-11

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