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Book Plate: Sproatt and Rolph Old English Country Cottages (1906)

Sproatt and Rolph was a firm of architects based in Toronto; the bookplate (Ex Libris) is dated 1915. It shows a woman kneeling with a blueprint or plan of a building which is being constructed behin [...]

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Added: 2007-11-09

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Title Page for “Old English Country Cottages” Old English Country Cottages (1906)

Old English Country Cottages

Edited by Charles Holme

Offices of ‘The Studio,’ London, paris and new York, MCMVI

Keywords: page images, title pages, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-06-13

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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: 2004-07-29

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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: 2004-07-31

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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: 2004-07-29

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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 Beddington [...]

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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Letter T Old English Country Cottages (1906)

A decorative initial T from page 3, used as a drop cap, or capital.

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Places shown: none

Added: 2006-03-15

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Letter K Old English Country Cottages (1906)

A decorative initial capital K from page 11. Judging by the carefully-trimmed shrubbery I’d say the initial was made for the book.

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Places shown: none

Added: 2004-07-31

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Tonbridge, Kent Old English Country Cottages (1906)

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, greyscale

Places shown: Tonbridge; Kent; England

Added: 2004-07-31

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Biddenden, Kent Old English Country Cottages (1906)

SignedSydney R Jones 1906.

Biddenden village Web site

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

Places shown: Biddenden; Kent; England

Added: 2005-07-16

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Cranbrook, Kent Old English Country Cottages (1906)

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 Kentnotes about the village of Cranbrook“Kent, [...]

Keywords: streets, cottages, sketches, greyscale

Places shown: Cranbrook; Kent; England

Added: 2005-07-24

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Crawley, Sussex Old English Country Cottages (1906)

This old farmhouse or cottage has tile siding on the walls.

Keywords: cottages, birds, buildings, windows, chimneys, greyscale

Places shown: Crawley; Sussex; England

Added: 2010-04-15

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North Chapel, Sussex Old English Country Cottages (1906)

The front porch of a house with tile on the walls, leaded window-panes in casement windows, an arched doorway, and a stone above the door engraved “W. Y. 1687”—I couldn’t find any reference to this bu [...]

Keywords: houses, doors, windows, sketches, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-01-28

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Haslemere, Surrey Old English Country Cottages (1906)

A young woman stands at the gate to an English cottage garden. She holds a child in her arms, and she wears a long dress and a somewhat soiled apron. The gate is set in a thick hedge, but we can see s [...]

Keywords: cottages, people, flowers, colour

Places shown: Haslemere; Surrey; England

Added: 2008-08-09

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Chiddingfold, Surrey Old English Country Cottages (1906)

A cottage in Chiddingfold, Surrey (in the South of England), showing the use of tile to cover the upper storey’s walls and the chimney. It is signed by Sidney Jones and dated 1906.Hand-coloured versi [...]

Keywords: cottages, greyscale

Places shown: Chiddingfold; Surrey; England

Added: 2008-08-24

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Guildford Castle, Surrey Old English Country Cottages (1906)

the entrance to Guildford castle, SurreyOne of the features of the Surrey cottage, indeed of all those counties where tile was the principal roofing material, is the skill with which the tiling is ada [...]

Keywords: castles, street scenes, buildings, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Guildford; Surrey; England

Added: 2008-08-19

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Steep, Hampshire Old 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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Restoration of Old Cottage at Steep Petersfield Old English Country Cottages (1906)

STEEP, HAMPSHIRE.From a water-colour drawing byWalter Tyndale.The only district where stone-slated roofs were hipped was in the heart of the tile counties. Here there are a number, the builders merely [...]

Keywords: cottages, art, houses, roofs, chimneys, colour, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Steep; Hampshire; England

Added: 2012-10-30

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Antique Meat Jack Old English Country Cottages (1906)

A meat jack was a device used for hanging meat in front of a fire to roast. The meat had to be turned frequently so that it cooked evenly; a meat jack was a device for doing that. Some were clockwork [...]

Keywords: sketches, kitchen implements, objects, clip art, meat jacks, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2014-07-19

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Pestle and Mortar in Bronze Old English Country Cottages (1906)

Detail from Fig. 42, showing a drawing of an antique metal pestle and mortar.The metalwork in these counties is of exceptionally fine character, and most of it is simply the shaping of the material in [...]

Keywords: sketches, kitchen implements, objects, clip art, pestle and mortar, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2014-07-14

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