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Blue skies with drifting clouds, blue sea in a bay, rippling with white foam towards the shore, and an expanse of sand with a few lively rabbits close to some thistles.....
Portrait of Thackeray with high collar and bow-tie, looking rather austere, as quite a young man
A cloudy sky, nothing dramatic (no sunset glow), just a quiet sense of work done and safe return, a few boats at anchor nearby and steps up the cliff still to be climbed.
Chaotic "dark" plate showing men and women scrambling over obstacles and skirmishing with lethal-looking weapons
People in the stands excitedly watching a scrum, two men in top hats, a lower class gent reaching forward, a young lady also leaning forward enthusiastically while another peeping across on the right looks rather alarmed!
The countryside in this part of the world, from the photo-gallery of Kilverts, Hay-on-Wye, by kind permission of the inn--blue sky over rolling grassland with hills in the distance
Gilt-framed painting of waves rippling to the shore under a blue sky, both sea and sky white-flecked, but more colours in the sea — pink and yellow, for instance.
The cat seems to be in a shed, with apples and old wellies and a basket lying around--the ideal setting for foraging for rats
John Tenniel's illustration for Alice in Wonderland, showing Alice putting a large crown on her head.
SY Gunilda in the Gulf of Naples with Vesuvius in the background
The young woman has a book on her lap, perhaps of poetry, and sits by a window, looking lost in thought. She wears a loose, creamy-white gown, unusual for the time.
A Britannia figure with a lion and shield against a background of flames
Powerful monochrome image of a mighty shaft of heat speeding through the air and obliterating an army vehicle or piece of mounted artillery
A gold sunburst on a dark blue background with stars around it, set in a richly decorated and gilded border. This motif is echoed in the apse, which is equally richly decorated, with a central roundel of the Lamb of God and flag.
Waiting girls in geisha costumes holding fans and sitting, Japanese style, in the shade around a pool of sunshine
Postcard of the wide promenade, leading to a pier with a particularly fine Victorian-style structure at the entrance
Engraving of a massive complex in a sort of Franco-Flemish Gothic style with a tall pinnacled central tower and a couple of smaller ones.
Partial view of a marble effigy from the Church Monuments site
Morris's design on cotton, the flower like Catherine Wheels among other foliage (in blue!) and flowers (white)
Dickens in his study, his characters materialising around him in an ethereal haze
Portrait of Whistler publicising the 2-day conference, with the dates (18/19 June) and venue (Tate Britain) given too.
Cathedral with slender spire above rows of colourfully painted houses on the harbour
Pencil portrait of Vernon Lee by her friend, John Singer Sargent, dressed in boater-type hat and jacket, of ambiguous appearance with a certain laid-back charm
#gardens Rich show of flowers, lupins, lilies etc, either side of a path leading to a cottage
A sailor comes home and the family in their simple cottage, a man reading the paper, looking surprised; an elderly woman peering up at him; a little girl staring wonderingly at him -- hardly know how to react to this apparent stranger
Portrait of an old-fashioned middle-aged grandmotherly-looking woman, in an oval frame
A woman resting on a couch with fan and summer flowers, including orange poppies, nearby — an exotic setting with diaphanous curtains on the partially screened windows
Part of a stained glass window, showing a blazing stylised sun held by a long-haired angel in a yellow and orange patterned robe
Having been rejected by Apollo, the nymph Clytie in an orange robe is turning towards the sun amid a bevy of sunflowers. She will gradually turn into one herself.
Pecock charger in shades of red: the peacock with its tail magnificently unfurled, with peahens circling round the rim
White washing hanging on lines in a garden, suggestive of brilliant sunshine
An angel with an infant in her arm, scattering popies and accompanied by cherubs, flies up through the twilight, a finger to her lips
At his easel, the artist concentrating -- what looks like one of his dolled up East Enders' portraits on the wall above him
Chalk cliffs on the Yorkshire coast, eroded to produce a series of picturesque caves
Wild chervil (or cow parsley) growing by a path through trees, in May (now!)
A young, fashionably dressed woman in front of a shelf of decorative sales items (a flower in a glass dome, for example) looks rather winningly at the viewer
grand portico at the stone exterior
Frontisiece and title page of a bibliography of "Penny Bloods": the image shows a woman seemingly aflame, and horrified onlookers.
Mr Weston rescues the women from the rain, and sharing one umbrella with Miss Taylor leads to better things! Emma prides herself on having facilitated the match!
Stained glass shpwing Pugin's motto, "En Avant"!
Ship burning off the coast under a glowering sky, and horses scrambling ashore, obviously terrified
Smartly dressed gentlemen at a desk, obviousy enjoying some fascinating reading material!
Peoplle watch in horror as the bold knight flourishes his sword. Even the horse recoils!
Oriental pattern with green and blue colours, and white flower heads within the patterning
Monochrome engraving of the boats approaching Hammersmith Bridge neck-and-neck!
Front cover with an illustration of a fiery Dickens, perhaps in the very active of performing... or just imagining!
"The Birth of Sita" from a relief by John Lockwood Kipling, one of the illustrations here (the baby Sita emerged from a furrow during ploughing)
Two women in woodland carpeted by buebells, one sitting, the other standing, both apparently lost in reverie amid the sea of dappled blue
Britannia stands on the steps of the gallery as portraits of famous people (Shakespeare, Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, etc) are brought in, apparently by themselves, one of them crushing its occupant!
A tiny nymph sits demurely in the curved stem of the bluebell, which flowers around her
Horse and large-wheeled contraption being driven flat out
Memorial stone carved by Thomas Woolner in 1851, the year after Wordsworth died, with his profile, and flowers on each side of it.
The young woman, a basket of flowers over one arm, looks lovingly down at the baby held on her other hip, beautifuly dressed in a white gown and lacy bonnet. The pair are dappled by sunlight.
The risen Jesus moves back a little as an awestruck Mary Magdalene, still holding her anointing pot, raises a hand towards him.
A picturesque house with several chimneys and a gabled roof, by a country lane--a labourer is walking along the lane carrying a pitchfork. An idyllic old-world country scene.
A rocket with several compartments speeding through space to a huge moon....
5 figures in three compartments, resting, bearing and picking grapes from the vines. The last person, seated, waits to pay the labourers.
A small girl, barefoot, smilingly holding up some picked wildflowers, gathered in her smock.
Adult goats and their young living precariously in the rocky landscape, with two rabbits in the corner among some greenery