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View full detailsText on the tag: Painted by Carl Spitzweg c.1850, the library is decorated in rococo style with a man standing at the top of a ladder. His love for...
View full detailsText on the tag: We are made whole by books, as by great space and the stars. Mary Carolyn Davies, 20thC American Poet.. Conservation acid-free ...
View full detailsText on the tag: There are over 2,000 species of cacti of various shapes and sizes. Caldera cacti in south-western US can reach over 20 m (66 ft) i...
View full detailsText on the tag: Pissarro painted this from his balcony at No.1 Gloucester Terrace, with Kew Green in the foreground, Kew Road to the left, and Riv...
View full detailsText on the tag: The painting depicts the road connecting Valhermeil with Pontoise, a village northwest of Paris where the artist lived for many ye...
View full detailsText on the tag: The view here is of the daily life of Paris, looking down from the window of Grand Hotel de Russie. Pissarro’s works of Paris in t...
View full detailsText on the tag: Pissarro moved back to the Pontoise area where he had lived previously, and remained there for ten years producing over three hund...
View full detailsText on the tag: One of Pissarro’s best known pointillist images, the view depicts his neighbour’s yard. It was a piece Pissarro took pride in, and...
View full detailsText on the tag: After moving to Eragny-sur-Epte, Pissarro’s works took on the subject of the French countryside of Normandy and the rhythm of the ...
View full detailsText on the tag: View of Pontoise, located northwest of Paris. The critic Émile Zola’s described Pissarro’s work of the rural French landscape: “Fr...
View full detailsText on the tag: Similar to several other great artists, Pissarro found refuge in London to escape the Franco-Prussian war and first visited in 187...
View full detailsText on the tag: Pissarro moved back to the Pontoise area where he had lived previously, and remained there for ten years producing over three hund...
View full detailsText on the tag: Camille Pissarro worked mainly in the Paris area but painted in London during visits. Similar to several other great artists, he f...
View full detailsText on the tag: Pissarro’s home in Normandy was in Eragny, where he lived from 1884 until his death. Painted during the last artistic phase, the p...
View full detailsText on the tag: Pissarro described the city of Paris as having a “silvery atmosphere”. He painted the cityscape of Paris from his window of an apa...
View full detailsText on the tag: Visiting Rouen in 1896, Pissarro wrote of the "motif of the iron bridge on a rainy day, with much traffic, carriages, pedestrians,...
View full detailsText on the tag: A landscape painted near his rural home, Pissarro uses pointillism but using slightly broader brushstrokes. His revelatory approac...
View full detailsText on the tag: St. Thomas, where the artist Camille Pissarro was born, is an island in the Southern Caribbean. Having been sent to a boarding sch...
View full detailsText on the tag: It is said that from not wanting to paint outdoors for his vulnerability to eye infections and his aversion to the busy outdoors d...
View full detailsText on the tag: Illustration by draughtsman Jean Bernard in 1815. There are over 500 million domestic cats in the world, and are one of, if not th...
View full detailsText on the tag: Two children reading c.1919 by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, an Australian illustrator of children's books. The artist first published he...
View full detailsText on the tag: Illustration by John Tenniel (1820-1914) from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Depicted is the White Rabbit saying to itself ‘Oh ...
View full detailsText on the tag: An engraving by the Dutch artist Cornelis Bloemaert II (1603-1692). The text below in Dutch reads "Wat baet keers off bril, als de...
View full detailsText on the tag: The original lithograph titled "Grimalkin's Royal Circus". A grimalkin is an archaic term for a cat. The famous prophet, Nostradam...
View full detailsText on the tag: Carl Reichert (1836-1918) was born in Vienna and took after his father, Heinrich Reichert who was also a painter of animal and por...
View full detailsText on the tag: Junger Dackel (Young dachshund) by the artist Karl Reichert (1836–1918). He studied at the Academy of Drawing in Gratz, continuin...
View full detailsText on the tag: Although its origin is unknown, a maypole is a tall wooden pole that is erected, around which a maypole dance takes place as a pa...
View full detailsText on the tag: Did you know that a group of cats is called a clowder, a male cat is called a tom, a female cat is called a molly or queen? Cats a...
View full detailsText on the tag: Eric Ravilious (1903-1942) British painter, book illustrator, and designer, who grew up in Sussex. He is particularly known for hi...
View full detailsText on the tag: By Ramon Casas (1866-1932), this painting is one of the most famous masterpieces of the Art Nouveau movement. A woman is shown res...
View full detailsText on the tag: Eric Ravilious (1903-1942) British painter, book illustrator, and designer, who grew up in Sussex. He is particularly known for hi...
View full detailsText on the tag: Eric Ravilious (1903-1942) British painter, book illustrator, and designer, who grew up in Sussex. He is particularly known for hi...
View full detailsText on the tag: Eric Ravilious (1903-1942) British painter, book illustrator, and designer, who grew up in Sussex. He is particularly known for hi...
View full detailsText on the tag: Measuring 43m in height, the lighthouse located in the English Channel in East Sussex became operational in October 1902 and was s...
View full detailsText on the tag: 55m in height, the horse figure on the Salisbury Plain is the oldest of several white horses that can be found in Wiltshire. By Er...
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