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Academic at in Manchester, at a Dept English. Environmental issues, Arts and Humanities and Crafts. A quiet page.
Not Rossetti but a young Edward Burne-Jones. Jane Morris in the garden, entitled "Summer Snow" perhaps a melancholy beyond the falling petals. www.royalacademy.org.uk/article/how-...
January 29, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Kenneth Lilly. Tawny Owl hiding in a birch tree. He was concerned with the habitat, and to place the bird within it. 1970s or 1980s I think.
January 26, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Charles Tunnicliffe. Barn Owl in a Gale, the finished painting. More plumage and less flailing.
January 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Charles Tunnicliffe. Barn owl in a gale, a sketch for a painting.
January 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
From Sunderland, plus a frog inside, pint mug in lustre-ware. 19th century bridge over the Wear.
January 25, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Gwen Raverat small wood engraving. Almost Spring
January 25, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Beatrix Potter 1891, early watercolour of a mouse
January 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Paul Nash of 1922, a wood engraving, Winter Wood.
Following closely after his paintings of the WW1 trenches.
January 22, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Millais again, also St Agnes Eve, but this one less satisfied, more charged with tension. 1854. Published illustration versus personal interpretation.
January 11, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Millais (engraved Dalziel) Illustration to the Tennyson poem St Agnes Eve 1857 - and the first four lines...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45388/...
Deep on the convent-roof the snows
Are sparkling to the moon:
My breath to heaven like vapour goes;
May my soul follow soon!
January 11, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1950) Glacier, blue cave. The best location to describe today.
January 11, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Thomas Bewick. 1800 Vignette. Wood-engraving of a snowbound winter village.
January 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Thomas Bewick (1797) Field-fare in a winter landscape.
January 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Peter Bruegel the elder (1565) Grisaille of Christ and the woman taken in adultery. John. 8. 1-20. Attentively following what is written in the dust and the crowd already melting away. A hesitation I'm not sure our culture would connect to.
January 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Winter landscape, colour engraving by Gwen Raverat 1947 Childe Roland is to the dark tower come.....which tower is all around him.
January 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Wenceslas Holler 1642 still life. Muff, mask and head-scarf. Telling objects. sbirky.ngprague.cz/en/dielo/CZE... This copy at the National Gallery, Prague.
January 4, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Anne Hayward, a contemporary engraving of her garden in snow. www.woodengravers.co.uk/artists/hayw... represent her. Marvellous work.
January 4, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Claire Leighton of 1931. Impressive winter tree felling and wood gathering.
January 3, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Pilgrims in the snow. Hokusai print from 100 images of Mount Fuji. All the snow is online these days.
December 25, 2024 at 10:34 AM
Rembrandt etching, quiet landscape, a cow drinking and just a farm, nothing changing. about 1650
December 24, 2024 at 10:05 PM
They are re-issuing Tunnicliffe's prints, this Hare of 1949. Much of his work from that period, when there is concern about lost rural worlds.
December 23, 2024 at 12:29 PM
Kathe Kollwitz 1925 Cottage industry or Home worker (heimarbeit), lithograph. Not an anniversary to enjoy.
December 22, 2024 at 2:03 PM
A bright and clever spider's web lurking on the corner of this large pine
December 22, 2024 at 11:21 AM
A rose for the winter Solstice, battered pink but surviving this far.
December 21, 2024 at 3:32 PM
Iain Macnab – Illustration from Burns’s Tam o’Shanter, 1934 -- taken from a Robjn Cantus blog. That rain... inexpensiveprogress.com/tag/wood-eng...
December 20, 2024 at 9:06 PM